Ernest Hemingway quotes - page 12

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another. (Ernest Hemingway)
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. View quote
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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true. View quote
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Write hard and clear about what hurts. View quote
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Man is not made for defeat. View quote
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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won't you? Because we're going to have a strange life. View quote
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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters. View quote
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. View quote
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Hunger is good discipline. View quote
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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it. View quote
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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure. (Ernest Hemingway)
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. View quote
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? View quote
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For what are we born if not to aid one another? View quote
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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. View quote
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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. View quote
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time). View quote
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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? View quote
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You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. View quote
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. View quote
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good. (Ernest Hemingway)
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you. View quote
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I felt very lonely when they were all there. View quote
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear. View quote
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Work could cure almost anything. View quote
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