Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Country Quotes, Style Quotes

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

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Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

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

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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

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The only decent bone in her body was mine.

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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.

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

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Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

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

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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

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You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

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