Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

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I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

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But did thee feel the earth move?

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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

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Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

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Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

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

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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