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Never confuse motions with action.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemmingway
E. M. Hemmingway
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Ernest M. Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway
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Confuse
Action
Dream
Never

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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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Your blood coagulates beautifully.
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Never confuse movement with action.
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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
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Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway.
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