Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Doe Quotes

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

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Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

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It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

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Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

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The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

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Leadership does not mean domination.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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