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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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American Novelist, Writer July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961

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But, you say, there is very little conversation in this book. Why isn't there more dialoge? What we want in a book by this citizen is people talking; that is all he knows how to do and now he doesn't do it. The fellow is no philosopher, no savant, an incompetent zoologist, he drinks too much and cannot punctuate readily and now he has stopped writing dialogue. Some one ought to put a stop to him. He is bull crazy. Ernest Hemingway
I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said 'I don't know who killed him, but he's dead all right,' and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could..."
He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care. Ernest Hemingway
Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. Ernest Hemingway
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But..."
Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even..."
They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him. Ernest Hemingway
I don't know. I only think the Austrians will not stop when they have won a victory. It is in defeat that we become Christian."The Austrians are Christians-- except for the Bosnians."I don't mean technically Christian. I mean like Our Lord."He said nothing."We are all gentler now because we are beaten. How would our Lord have been f Peter had rescued him in the Garden? Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to..."
Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the..."
Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so."
Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so. Ernest Hemingway
Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "It was an hour before the first shark hit him."
It was an hour before the first shark hit him. Ernest Hemingway
The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried..."
The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more. Ernest Hemingway

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