Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Art Quotes, Men Quotes

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

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Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

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You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

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A bottle of wine was good company.

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

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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

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I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

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I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

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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.

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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

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

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Being against evil doesn't make you good.

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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

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