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From Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- 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…
- I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up…
- Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,…
- The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The…
- 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…
- A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
- Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end…
- I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
- Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
- The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in…
- I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin…
- Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
- Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a…
- 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 worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the…
- I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of…
- All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
- Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from…
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- All things truly wicked start from innocence.
- All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
- Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
- Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do…
- 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…
- You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were…
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