Ernest Hemingway quotes - page 6

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. (Ernest Hemingway)
Every day above earth is a good day. View quote
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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough. View quote
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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before. View quote
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I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be. View quote
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Easy writing makes hard reading. View quote
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. View quote
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A bottle of wine was good company. View quote
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered. View quote
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In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken. View quote
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. (Ernest Hemingway)
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. View quote
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You're my religion. You're all I've got. View quote
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You never understand anybody that loves you. View quote
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. View quote
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow. View quote
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Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare. View quote
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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. View quote
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends. View quote
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. View quote
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable. (Ernest Hemingway)
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once. View quote
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact. View quote
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We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes. View quote
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler. View quote
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