Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Believe Quotes

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 you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

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

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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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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

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Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

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The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

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

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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.

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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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