Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Meat Quotes

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

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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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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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Most people never listen.

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We wait always for something that does not come.

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When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.

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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

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