Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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351. “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

353. “But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

357. “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”

— Ernest Hemingway

358. “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

359. “Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.”

— Ernest Hemingway

360. “Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

361. “Wars are caused by undefended wealth.”

— Ernest Hemingway

362. “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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

365. “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

366. “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

367. “In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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369. “But you always fall for somebody else and then it’s all right. Fall for them but don’t let them ruin you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

371. “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

372. “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

373. “Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

375. “Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

377. “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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

382. “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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

385. “In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.”

— Ernest Hemingway

386. “Don’t you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

387. “I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”

— Ernest Hemingway

388. “Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

390. “That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”

— Ernest Hemingway

391. “You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”

— Ernest Hemingway

392. “Your blood coagulates beautifully.”

— Ernest Hemingway

393. “I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

396. “When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

400. “No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.”

— Ernest Hemingway