Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Life Quotes, Good Life Quotes

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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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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It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

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I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

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What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

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Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

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My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

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There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

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There are worse places to be than on your own.

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

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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

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