Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Waiting Quotes

We wait always for something that does not come.

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Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.

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

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Every day above earth is a good day.

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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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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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

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

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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

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You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

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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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