Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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201. “If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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202. “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

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203. “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...”

— Ernest Hemingway

204. “I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye – that was the trouble – I wanted to kiss you good night – and there’s a lot of difference.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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205. “My big fish must be somewhere.”

— Ernest Hemingway

206. “The shortest answer is doing the thing.”

— Ernest Hemingway

207. “You must be prepared to work always without applause.”

— Ernest Hemingway

208. “It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

— Ernest Hemingway

209. “By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”

— Ernest Hemingway

210. “Being against evil doesn’t make you good.”

— Ernest Hemingway

211. “The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”

— Ernest Hemingway

212. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

— Ernest Hemingway

213. “I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”

— Ernest Hemingway

214. “No one you love is ever truly lost.”

— Ernest Hemingway

215. “When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.”

— Ernest Hemingway

216. “You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.”

— Ernest Hemingway

217. “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

218. “For what are we born if not to aid one another?”

— Ernest Hemingway

219. “The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.”

— Ernest Hemingway

220. “Work could cure almost anything.”

— Ernest Hemingway

221. “Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”

— Ernest Hemingway

222. “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”

— Ernest Hemingway

223. “The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.”

— Ernest Hemingway

224. “I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.”

— Ernest Hemingway

225. “My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.”

— Ernest Hemingway

226. “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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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227. “Live it up so you can write it down.”

— Ernest Hemingway

228. “There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.”

— Ernest Hemingway

229. “The smallest coffins are the heaviest.”

— Ernest Hemingway

230. “Remember everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong.”

— Ernest Hemingway

231. “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

— Ernest Hemingway

232. “You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

233. “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”

— Ernest Hemingway

234. “To hell with luck. I’ll bring the luck with me.”

— Ernest Hemingway

235. “Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.”

— Ernest Hemingway

236. “No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

— Ernest Hemingway

237. “You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

238. “The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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239. “Religion is the opium of the poor.”

— Ernest Hemingway

240. “To be successful in writing, use short sentences.”

— Ernest Hemingway

241. “When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

— Ernest Hemingway

242. “I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.”

— Ernest Hemingway

243. “I don’t want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.”

— Ernest Hemingway

244. “When you have a child, the world has a hostage.”

— Ernest Hemingway

245. “Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.”

— Ernest Hemingway

246. “You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

247. “The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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248. “How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.”

— Ernest Hemingway

249. “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

— Ernest Hemingway

250. “You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.”

— Ernest Hemingway