Ernest Hemingway Quotes

You never understand anybody that loves you.

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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

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The first draft of anything is sh*t.

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

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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

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

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

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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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