Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Being Positive Quotes, Negative Quotes

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

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He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

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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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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

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Most people never listen.

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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

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Write drunk; edit sober.

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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

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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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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

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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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