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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway quotes

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

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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. Ernest Hemingway
Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in..."
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway
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. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An..."
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. Ernest Hemingway
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and... Ernest Hemingway
He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might..."
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. Ernest Hemingway
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. Ernest Hemingway
Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet. Ernest Hemingway
A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. Ernest Hemingway
Where did you wash? the boy thought. The village water supply was two streets down the road. I must have water here for him, the boy thought, and soap and a good towel. Why am I so thoughtless? I must get him another shirt and a jacket for the winter and some sort of shoes and another blanket. Ernest Hemingway
The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the..."
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. Ernest Hemingway
But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. Ernest Hemingway

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