Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Hunting Quotes

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

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I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

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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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Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

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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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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

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One cat just leads to another.

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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

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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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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

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We wait always for something that does not come.

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You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

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