Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I am always in love.

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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

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

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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

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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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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

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I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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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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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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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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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

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

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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

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If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

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

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