Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Book Quotes, Judging Quotes

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

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I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

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My big fish must be somewhere.

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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

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Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

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

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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