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Before Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet…
- I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
- The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped…
- It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot…
- My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
- 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…
- You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor…
- What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
- Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
- Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
- When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then…
- No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die,…
- The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something…
- I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write…
- I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it…
- There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that?…
- In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long…
- Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
- Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
- I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
- I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
- But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and…
- And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it.…
- When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I…
- The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood