Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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601. “You know I don’t love any one but you. You shouldn’t mind because some one else loved me.”

— Ernest Hemingway

602. “Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

603. “Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”

— Ernest Hemingway

604. “When you start to live outside yourself, it’s all dangerous.”

— Ernest Hemingway

605. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

— Ernest Hemingway

606. “A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.”

— Ernest Hemingway

607. “We have very primative emotions. It’s impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.”

— Ernest Hemingway

608. “I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be.”

— Ernest Hemingway

609. “If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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610. “I wanted to try this new drink: That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?”

— Ernest Hemingway

611. “Wars are caused by undefended wealth.”

— Ernest Hemingway

612. “Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn’t help it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

613. “Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.”

— Ernest Hemingway

614. “All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn’t care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.”

— Ernest Hemingway

615. “God knows I didn’t mean to fall in love with her.”

— Ernest Hemingway

616. “If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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617. “War is not won by victory.”

— Ernest Hemingway

618. “Good dialogue is not real speech-it’s the illusion of real speech.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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619. “I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”

— Ernest Hemingway

620. “I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.”

— Ernest Hemingway

621. “It’s harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”

— Ernest Hemingway

622. “Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn’t really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.”

— Ernest Hemingway

623. “There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.”

— Ernest Hemingway

624. “I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.”

— Ernest Hemingway

625. “The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”

— Ernest Hemingway

626. “You’ve such a lovely temperature.”

— Ernest Hemingway

627. “The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

— Ernest Hemingway

628. “All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.”

— Ernest Hemingway

629. “I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

630. “I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.”

— Ernest Hemingway

631. “Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

632. “I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.”

— Ernest Hemingway

633. “Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”

— Ernest Hemingway

634. “We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”

— Ernest Hemingway

635. “God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.”

— Ernest Hemingway

636. “Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.”

— Ernest Hemingway

637. “He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...”

— Ernest Hemingway

638. “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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

639. “I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.”

— Ernest Hemingway

640. “The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.”

— Ernest Hemingway

641. “No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”

— Ernest Hemingway

642. “Drinking is a way of ending the day.”

— Ernest Hemingway

643. “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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

644. “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.”

— Ernest Hemingway

645. “A big lie is more plausible than truth.”

— Ernest Hemingway

646. “Creation’s probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.”

— Ernest Hemingway

647. “A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

648. “All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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649. “Your blood coagulates beautifully.”

— Ernest Hemingway

650. “I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”

— Ernest Hemingway