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"50 Ernest Hemingway Quotes & Sayings

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Born: July 21, 1899 Died: July 2, 1961 | Novelist |

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.

Beauty Truth Virtue Vulnerable
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Being Fellow Fellow Men Former
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Always Aspects Because Become
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Afterwards Breaks Broken Everyone
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Defeat Defeated Destroyed Made
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

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

Always Drunk Keep Mouth
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Carefully Deal Great Great Deal
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Anybody Failure Interested Man
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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Get Going Ring Tolstoy
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Never mistake motion for action.

Action Mistake Motion Never
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ability Almost Always Cowardice
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Allowed Deal Game Golf
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Crime How Justified Matter
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Apart Awake Fall I Love
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Anyone Go Love Never
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Enough Feast Go Life
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
Beautiful Fly Like May
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Alcohol Down Flame Go
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Born Business How Learn
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Butterfly Did Dust He
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

American American Literature Book Huckleberry Finn
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Always Could Day Except
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

About Above Being Dignity
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Any Brings Defeat Ever
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Authority Cause Conditions Just
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Caused Undefended Wars Wealth
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Answer Doing Shortest Thing
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Best Better Good Good Luck
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Courage is grace under pressure.

Courage Under Grace Pressure
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Another Details Died Distinguish
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness Intelligent Intelligent People Know
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Aim Best Down Feel
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Choose Chose Had Me
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Books Common Good Had
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Get Harder Heroes Necessary
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Absolute Father First Kid
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Book As Friend Loyal
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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

After Bad Feel Feel Good
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Continue Death End Enough
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I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Know No One Now One Thing
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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

All My Life First First Time Life
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Die Dog Good Good Reason
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.

All Things Innocence Start Things
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Drunk Fools Forced His
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Best Happen Later Make
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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.

Because Critics God Like
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Cannot Ever Guarantee Impose
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Become Being Eligible Opponents
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes & Sayings