Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Trying Quotes

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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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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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

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The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

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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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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

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

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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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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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You'll lose it, if you talk about it

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Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

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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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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

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There isnt always an explanation for everything.

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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