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You Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
- Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your…
- Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
- I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
- If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it…
- In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
- You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
- You're beautiful, like a May fly.
- Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
- It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
- If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of…
- I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
- Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
- Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
- They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet…
- When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the…
- What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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