Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Simple Quotes, Breathing Quotes

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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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

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All things truly wicked start from innocence.

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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

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I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

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Never confuse movement with action.

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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

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You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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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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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

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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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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

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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've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

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