Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Believe Quotes, Silly Quotes

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

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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.

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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

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

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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

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

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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

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I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

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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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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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Being against evil doesn't make you good.

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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

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