Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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701. “I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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702. “Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.”

— Ernest Hemingway

703. “I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”

— Ernest Hemingway

704. “Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.”

— Ernest Hemingway

705. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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706. “No one ever stopped when they were winning.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

708. “Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.”

— Ernest Hemingway

709. “The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.”

— Ernest Hemingway

710. “You never understand anybody that loves you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

711. “The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

712. “Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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713. “Don’t you like to write letters? I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something.”

— Ernest Hemingway

714. “We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.”

— Ernest Hemingway

715. “You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.”

— Ernest Hemingway

716. “Everything that’s innocent to us is crazy to them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

717. “In those days, there was no money to buy books.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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718. “Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.”

— Ernest Hemingway

719. “We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man’s duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

720. “Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”

— Ernest Hemingway

721. “The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.”

— Ernest Hemingway

722. “For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.”

— Ernest Hemingway

723. “There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.”

— Ernest Hemingway

724. “Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.”

— Ernest Hemingway

725. “Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.”

— Ernest Hemingway

726. “Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.”

— Ernest Hemingway

727. “If a writer stops observing, he is finished.”

— Ernest Hemingway

728. “In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.”

— Ernest Hemingway

729. “This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

730. “Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.”

— Ernest Hemingway

731. “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”

— Ernest Hemingway

732. “Never write about a place until you’re away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you’ve seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That’s good practice, but it isn’t creative writing.”

— Ernest Hemingway

733. “I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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734. “Summer is a discouraging time to work – you don’t feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.”

— Ernest Hemingway

735. “There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.”

— Ernest Hemingway

736. “In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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737. “She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.”

— Ernest Hemingway

738. “A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.”

— Ernest Hemingway

739. “Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.”

— Ernest Hemingway

740. “This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

741. “He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”

— Ernest Hemingway

742. “Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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743. “I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.”

— Ernest Hemingway

744. “Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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745. “When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”

— Ernest Hemingway

746. “I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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747. “I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn’t.”

— Ernest Hemingway

748. “You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.”

— Ernest Hemingway

749. “You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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750. “His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.”

— Ernest Hemingway