All Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
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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 good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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