Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Waiting Quotes

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

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When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

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My big fish must be somewhere.

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I am always in love.

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

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The writer's job is to tell the truth.

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

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