Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Horse Quotes

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

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He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

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I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

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

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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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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

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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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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

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Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

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Look at things and listen and feel.

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A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.

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