Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Dog Quotes, Writing Quotes

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

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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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A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

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Write drunk; edit sober.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

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Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

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I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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