Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Brother Quotes, War Quotes

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

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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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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

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Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

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Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

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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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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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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

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