Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Wine Quotes

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

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In order to write about life first you must live it.

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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

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No one ever stopped when they were winning.

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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

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As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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

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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

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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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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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