Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Trying Quotes

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

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If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

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I find it's too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we're being well-defended, of exactly what we're doing. When someone tells us something we're doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can't read them.

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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

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Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

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I guess my feeling is that if you’re going to make a joke, that’s fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you’re trying to make.

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I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

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Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

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I've gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I've become much more aware of structure than ever before. Also, you really weigh every word. There's no closer reading then when you read to translate.

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Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

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I was popular at some times and not so popular at other times. But what mattered was trying to solve problems and deal with circumstances. Some of which I was able to anticipate. Some of which caught us totally by surprise.

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Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

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The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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