Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 9

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• Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, Military, War

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• Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

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  World, Want, Made

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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  Time, Hero, Age

  "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 13, 1950.

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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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  Writing, Knowing, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2192, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

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  Writing, Done, Letters

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

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• As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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  Strong, Food, Wine

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Book, Reading

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

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• I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

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  Love, Believe, Heart

  "To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 21, 1937.

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• Write hard and clear about what hurts.

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  Hurt, Writing, Chaos

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• My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

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  World, Arms, Used

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.151, Hamilton Books

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• I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

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  Thinking, May, Resolution

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• I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

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  Next Day, Done, Way

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

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  Cheer, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

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  Night, Day Night, Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Luck, Hell

  "Old Man and the Sea".

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• To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

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  Beautiful, Children, Two

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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  Writing, Trying, Way

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no rule on how to write.

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  Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Easy writing makes hard reading.

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  Reading, Writing, Easy

  "Paris Was Our Mistress". Book by Samuel Putnam, 1947.

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• As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

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  Wise, Long, Juice

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.11, Melville House

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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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  Nature, Father, Moon

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

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  Country, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is not made for defeat.

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  Inspiring, Perseverance, Self Esteem

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

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  Thinking, Life Is, Really Living

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Feelings

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3488, Simon and Schuster

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