Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Country Quotes

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

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All thinking men are atheists.

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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

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