Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 20

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• It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, People, Abuse

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.805, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Echoes, People

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• I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Wish, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

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• A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, School, Yearbook

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• Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Is, Operations, Anesthetics

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• Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Giving, Perspective

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• But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).

  Ernest Hemingway

  Tonight, Today, Tomorrow

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2701, Simon and Schuster

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• In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

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  Mistake, Style, Easy

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• You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Father, Book, Writing

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• As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wisdom, Winning, Ease

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• Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Doubt, Half

  Ernest Hemingway (1944). “Hemingway”

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• Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Want

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• The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Men, Use

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2248, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Way, Best Way

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• For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Dark, Forever

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Grateful, Different, Another Chance

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

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  Life, Night, Emotion

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Honesty

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• Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Stupidity, Should, Accomplishing Something

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• A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Speak, Should

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

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  Writing, Talking, Cracks

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.111, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Trying, Bed, Dull

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sea, Land, Walks

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• You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Needs, Life Is

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

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