Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Truth Quotes, Book Quotes

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

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Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

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She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

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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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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

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