Ernest Hemingway Quotes

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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

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You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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Everybody has something wrong with them.

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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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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

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