Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Time Quotes, Hero Quotes

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.

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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

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Being against evil doesn't make you good.

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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

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However you make your living is where your talent lies.

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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.

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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

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Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

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