Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Time Quotes, Writing Quotes

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

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You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

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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 nerves.

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The only decent bone in her body was mine.

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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

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No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.

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

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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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Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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