Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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The first draft of anything is shit.
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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle.
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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But did thee feel the earth move?
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I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
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But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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