Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 8

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• The writer's job is to tell the truth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Jobs, Telling The Truth

  Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Ernest Hemingway (2009). “Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms”, p.16, Infobase Publishing

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• Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

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  Knowing, Enjoy, Sun Also Rises

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Conversation, Good Conversation

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• All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Feelings, Contact

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• There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sports, Motor Racing, Games

  "Bullfighting Also Rises -- For Now" by Paul Wachter, www.esquire.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Strange, Darling, Be Good

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• When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Power, Giving, Times Of Crisis

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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  Birthday, Risk, Age

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

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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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• One cat just leads to another.

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  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.555, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

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  Beauty, Echoes, Dying

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• As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

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  Inspiring, Writing, Judging

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Work, Book

  "Daily routines of Nikola Tesla, Mozart, Hemingway, Woody Allen, Maya Angelou, van Gogh, Stephen King, and Nabokov" by Thomas Oppong, www.cnbc.com. February 7, 2017.

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• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Want

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• What is moral is what you feel good after.

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  Feel Good, Afternoon, Ethics And Morals

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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• You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

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  Spring, Rain, Fall

  Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Gajdusek (1978). “Hemingway's Paris”, Scribner Book Company

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• First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

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  Discipline, Firsts, Talent

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• There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

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  Life Lesson, Fisherman, Great Ones

  Ernest Hemingway (1963). “老人与海”

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• And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

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  Light, Age, Body

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

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• Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

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  Feet, Snow, House

  "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938)

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• Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

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  Enough

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the Stream”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

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  Trying, Firsts, Finance

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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