All Ernest Hemingway Quotes
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
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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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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
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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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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
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