Alive Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

11 Alive quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway’s spare style turns the ordinary into something vital. These eleven snippets distill his belief that life’s intensity lives in the small, hard‑won experiences that keep us moving forward.

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You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride…

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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then…

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i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then…

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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life,…

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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as…

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You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just…

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Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making…

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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to…

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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting…

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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop…

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From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you…

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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean…

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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…

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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

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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,…

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“You find everything on earth at Harry's." "Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness." "I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness,…

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