Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

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Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

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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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He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

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He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

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Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

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No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.

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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

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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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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

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