All Ernest Hemingway Quotes
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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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 you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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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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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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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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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
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