Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Art Quotes, Men Quotes

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

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I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

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You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

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

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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

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

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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

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No one you love is ever truly lost.

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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

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