Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Night Quotes, Knives Quotes

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

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No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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In those days, there was no money to buy books.

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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

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There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

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I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

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The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

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