Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Trying Quotes

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

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You've such a lovely temperature.

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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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It's a town you come to for a short time.

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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

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Your blood coagulates beautifully.

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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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