Ernest Hemingway Quotes, War Quotes, Book Quotes

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

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We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

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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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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

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You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

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The best writing is certainly when you are in love

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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

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Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

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There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

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we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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