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Down Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast…
- Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
- To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It…
- Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can…
- Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
- A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water,…
- My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
- There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then…
- Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the…
- As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving…
- Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the…
- 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…
- It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast…
- Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had…
- I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed…
- We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There…
- The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran…
- How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were…
- Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the…
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