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Inspirational Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

77 Inspirational quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen shows how struggle can feel powerful. Life may break us, but the broken places can become stronger, and taking deep breaths helps us taste each moment fully. He also reminds us that writing should be simple, even if the story changes as we go.

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Being against evil doesn't make you good.

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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

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How little we know of what there is to know.

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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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All thinking men are atheists.

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No one ever stopped when they were winning.

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Worry destroys the ability to write.

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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

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War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

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

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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is…

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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come…

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I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing…

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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for…

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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of…

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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix…

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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the…

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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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“I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have…

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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

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We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

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Never mistake movement for action

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Yes, they have more money.

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A man does not exist until he is drunk.

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A cat has absolute honesty.

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All bad writers are in love with the epic.

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We wait always for something that does not come.

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The writer's job is to tell the truth,

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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

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Strong in all the Broken Places

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The first draft of anything is sh*t.

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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

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“The earth gets tired of being exploited.”

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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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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

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