Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 6

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• Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

  Ernest Hemingway

  People, Use, Bitter

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Optimism, Fool, Accepting

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• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Kids

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

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• All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cowardice, Wells

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• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Military, War

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Live Life To The Fullest, Feelings, Half

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Soil, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Stuff, Throwing

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• You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Airplane, Lovely

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• All thinking men are atheists.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Death, Atheist

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Feel Good, Afternoon

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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• One cat just leads to another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.555, Simon and Schuster

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• First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Discipline, Firsts, Talent

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• I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Tired, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Nature, Father, Moon

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Winning, Needs

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lonely, Loneliness, Night

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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  Birthday, Risk, Age

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

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Intelligent, Men, Two

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• Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Faults, Damn, Damn Things

  Ernest Hemingway (1963). “Green Hills of Africa”, Scribner

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• At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

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  Writing, Night, Knowing

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• Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

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  Bad Ass, Tables, Bars

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• Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

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  Chance, Given, Behave

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• Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Being Positive, Negative, Use

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1970). “Ernest Hemingway, cub reporter: Kansas City Star stories”

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• Never confuse movement with action.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Funny, Work

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

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