Ernest Hemingway quotes - page 9

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that. (Ernest Hemingway)
In order to write about life, first you must live it. View quote
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. View quote
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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. View quote
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The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards. View quote
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The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ''The very rich are different from you and me.'' And how someone had said to Julian, ''Yes, they have more money.'' View quote
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The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. View quote
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Listen Jake... don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you are not taking advantage of it? View quote
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it. View quote
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What is the sense of ruining my head and erasing my memory, which is my capital, and putting me out of business? It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient. It's a bum turn, Hotch, terrible. View quote
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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous. (Ernest Hemingway)
I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful. View quote
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You've such a lovely temperature. View quote
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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed. View quote
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Any man's life, told truly, is a novel. View quote
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you. View quote
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Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. View quote
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There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me. View quote
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He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much. (Ernest Hemingway)
It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home. View quote
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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things. View quote
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend. View quote
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Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking. View quote
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