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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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

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I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it. Ernest Hemingway
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
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use. Ernest Hemingway
No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now. I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening..."
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIOYes, and music is the opium of..."
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIOYes, and music is the opium of the people. Ernest Hemingway
Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. Ernest Hemingway
But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their..."
I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together Ernest Hemingway
This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "When writing a novel a writer should create living people;..."
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols. Ernest Hemingway
Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered... but I have such a heart too... Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway

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