Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 22

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• If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

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  Book, Reading, Boys

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

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  Beautiful, Paris, America

  "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-22, edted by Sandra Spanier and Robert W Trogdon - review" by Sarah Churchwell, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Writing, Important

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• 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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  Girl, Writing, Hunting

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

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  Wise, Life Lesson, Army

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

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  Hail, Thee

  "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)

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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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  Writing, Events, Assuming

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

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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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  Writing, Good Luck, Long

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

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  Life Lesson, Men, Tolls

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2933, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

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  Acquiring Things, Afternoon, Paid

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

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  My Best Friend, Bulls, Said

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.94, Hamilton Books

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• There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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  Writing, Doe, Mystery

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• But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

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  Fall, Ruins

  Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

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  Trying, Looks, Drink

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Men Without Women”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

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  Doctors, Practice Of Medicine, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

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  Depression, Depressing, Artist

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

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  Appreciation, Survival, Beloved

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.29, Melville House

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• I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

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  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

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  Games, Bridges, Romance

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• There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

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  America, And Love, Literature

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• People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

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  Liars, Taken, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

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  Book, New Beginnings, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

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  Way, Invention, Inventor

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.407, Simon and Schuster

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• Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Literature, Architecture, Baroque Music

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

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  Real, Book, Mean

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