Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Wall Quotes, Dark Quotes

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

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You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

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