Drinking Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

Ernest Hemingway

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“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the odor of cooked rice and meat, saffron, pimentos, and oil, the tarry, wine-spilled smell of the big skin hung beside the door, hung by the neck and all the four legs extended, wine drawn from a…

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“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.”

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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you…

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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

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“Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town”

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“The earth gets tired of being exploited.”

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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean very blue with the tide out and the water curling far out along the beach. We drove through Saint Jean de Luz and passed through villages farther down the coast. Back of the rolling country we…

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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,…

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