Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Balls Quotes, Bulls Quotes

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

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Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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No one ever stopped when they were winning.

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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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

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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

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This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

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