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Own Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about…
- 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…
- If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so,…
- You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
- Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would…
- I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too.…
- I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and…
- It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
- There are worse places to be than on your own.
- Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
- The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept…
- As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of…
- Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the…
- I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.
- She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own…
- 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…
- All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
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- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov