Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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• Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
• It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing…
• In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.
• I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
• There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put…
• Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
• My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
• I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their…
• I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
• To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
• Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
• All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
• Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible…
• Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more…
• This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and…
• He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his…
• One cat just leads to another.
• The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
• A cat has absolute honesty.

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