Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes

Live it up so you can write it down.

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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

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

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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.

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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

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Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

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Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

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