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Never mistake motive for action.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering all the rest are merely games.
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Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
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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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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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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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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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