| 35 Famous Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
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“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
Bragging Quotes |
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“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.”
Cheating Quotes |
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“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
Cowardice Quotes |
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“Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.”
Defense Quotes |
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“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
Drinking Quotes |
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“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
Emotion Quotes |
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“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
Events Quotes |
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“By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure”
Grace Quotes |
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“As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary”
Heroism Quotes |
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“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
Hunting Quotes |
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Intelligence Quotes |
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“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”
Killing Quotes |
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“I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.”
Kissing Quotes |
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Listening Quotes |
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“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
Meaning Quotes |
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“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Morality Quotes |
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“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over”
Prose Quotes |
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“All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.”
Road to hell Quotes |
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“Develop a built-in bullshit detector.”
Senses Quotes |
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“Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree”
Teenage Quotes |
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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.”
Youth Quotes |
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“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain
called "Huckleberry Finn."”
Literature Quotes Source: Green Hills of Africa
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“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
Literature Quotes Source: Green Hills of Africa
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“Courage is grace under pressure.”
Courage Quotes |
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“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”
Cowards Quotes |
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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