Ernest Hemingway quotes - page 7

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood. (Ernest Hemingway)
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. View quote
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her? View quote
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice. View quote
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Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it. View quote
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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. View quote
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other. View quote
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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges. View quote
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it. View quote
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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears. View quote
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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. (Ernest Hemingway)
I wonder what your idea of heaven would be - A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows. View quote
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him. View quote
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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man. View quote
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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other. View quote
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I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee. View quote
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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more. View quote
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together. (Ernest Hemingway)
Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ. View quote
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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. View quote
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However you make your living is where your talent lies. View quote
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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought. View quote
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