quotes by Ernest Hemingway
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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— Ernest Hemingway
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— Ernest Hemingway
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drinking
181 people liked it
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know"
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
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happiness
108 people liked it
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. "
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
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authors
57 people liked it
"I love sleep. my life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
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writing
22 people liked it
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. "
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)
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mortality
21 people liked it
"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 (Death in the Afternoon)
— Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon)
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morals
19 people liked it
""The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.""
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
"“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
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— Ernest Hemingway
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— Ernest Hemingway
""Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a dmaned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?""
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?""
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
tags:
love
13 people liked it
"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 (A Moveable Feast)
— Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast)
tags:
food
11 people liked it
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen"
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
