Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Reader Quotes

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

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Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

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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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God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

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He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

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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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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

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Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

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