Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Farewell Quotes, Writing Quotes

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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Man is not made for defeat.

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Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

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I am like a blind pig when I work.

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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

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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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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

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Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

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