Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 19

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• As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Regret, Awards

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Years, Fifty

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military

  Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Rain, Farewell

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Knives, Piano

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• One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Cat, Pet

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• Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Travel, Writing, Mind

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.700, Simon and Schuster

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• Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Home, Simple

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Music, Sarcastic, Clever

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Baseball, Father, Men

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Writing, Talking

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• It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

  Ernest Hemingway

  House, Hunger, Hell

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Past, Simple

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Evil, Feels, Immoral

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• I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wish, Died

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• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Procrastination, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sorry, Mystery, Understood

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Long, Rabbits, Thee

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3006, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Writing, Mean, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.39, Melville House

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• I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Goes On, Moveable Feast

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

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• The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, War, Dirty

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

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• However you make your living is where your talent lies.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Talent, Kilimanjaro

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Writing, Life And Death

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Fiesta, Consequence

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.78, Hamilton Books

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• I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.18, Melville House

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