Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Sick Quotes, Faithful Quotes

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

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We wait always for something that does not come.

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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

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

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Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

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

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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

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Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

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If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

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When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

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