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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. — Ernest Hemingway,

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality. — Ernest Hemingway,

I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory. — Ernest Hemingway,

The smallest coffins are the heaviest. — Ernest Hemingway,

write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda — Ernest Hemingway,

Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault. — Ernest Hemingway,

In those days, there was no money to buy books. — Ernest Hemingway,

Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet". — Christopher J. Pumphrey

To understand is to forgive. — Ernest Hemingway,

This is a hell of dull talk ... How about some of that champagne? — Ernest Hemingway,

Easy reading is hard writing, — Ernest Hemingway,

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway,

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. — Ernest Hemingway,

One cat leads to another. — Ernest Hemingway,

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar. — Ernest Hemingway,

Fuck literature. — Ernest Hemingway,

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark. — Ernest Hemingway,

The colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five seconds or more. — Ernest Hemingway,

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway,

A bottle of wine was good company. — Ernest Hemingway,

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers. — Ernest Hemingway,

Ernest Hemingway called Jospehine the "most sensational woman anyone ever saw." I think all women deserve to be this sensational looking! — Mia Moretti

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare. — Ernest Hemingway,

Ambition ... the original of vices;
Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit — Ernest Hemingway,

I can't say how every time I ever put my arms around you I felt that I was home. — Ernest Hemingway,

I wished I had died before I loved anyone but her. — Ernest Hemingway,

In order to write about life first you must live it. — Ernest Hemingway,

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein] — Ernest Hemingway,

For sale: baby shoes, never worn. — Ernest Hemingway,

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

I do not follow you.
Many times I do not follow myself with pleasure. — Ernest Hemingway,

No. Listen. Take the wax from thy hairy ears. Listen well. I command. — Ernest Hemingway,

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else. — Ernest Hemingway,

You lose them the same way your lose a battalion; by errors of judgment, orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions. — Ernest Hemingway,

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself. — Ernest Hemingway,

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. — Ernest Hemingway,

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway,

I wish I could write well enough to write that story, he thought. What we did. Not what the others did to us. — Ernest Hemingway,

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not
completely trust anyone. — Ernest Hemingway,

All remembrance of things past is fiction. — Ernest Hemingway,

That is the way a whore talks.
A whore is also a woman, but I am not a whore.
You'll be one.
Not through you. — Ernest Hemingway,

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? — Ernest Hemingway,

You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened? — Ernest Hemingway,

He who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city, — Ernest Hemingway,

The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating. — Ernest Hemingway,

And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them. — Ernest Hemingway,

How what she had done could never matter since he knew he could not cure himself of loving her — Ernest Hemingway,

Not the why but the what. — Ernest Hemingway,

You bought me a beer," the old man said. "You are already a man. — Ernest Hemingway,

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once. — Ernest Hemingway,

Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said.
"No," Nick said. — Ernest Hemingway,

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. — Ernest Hemingway,

Even if he was ever afraid he knew that he could do it anyway. — Ernest Hemingway,

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is. — Ernest Hemingway,

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway,

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), ... — Ernest Hemingway,

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. — Ernest Hemingway,

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land ... Before we create, we must understand ... — Ernest Hemingway,

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway,

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. — Ernest Hemingway,

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers. — Ernest Hemingway,

Blood is thicker than water,
The young man said
As he knifed his friend
For a drooling old bitch
And a house full of lies. — Ernest Hemingway,

Drink it down, baby, and look forward to being sick. — Ernest Hemingway,

I kissed her neck and shoulders. I felt faint with loving her so much. — Ernest Hemingway,

Well,' Bill said, 'we might as well have another drink.' 'Damned good idea,' Mike said. 'One never gets anywhere by discussing finances. — Ernest Hemingway,

Never confuse movement with action. — Ernest Hemingway,

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her. — Ernest Hemingway,

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union. — Ernest Hemingway,

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. — Ernest Hemingway,

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body. — Ernest Hemingway,

They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything — Ernest Hemingway,

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine. — Ernest Hemingway,

Don't ever kid yourself with too much dialectics. — Ernest Hemingway,

Remember him," Brett said. "I do. Remember him perfectly. Look, Jake, we'll come down the night — Ernest Hemingway,

I drink to make people more interesting," Ernest Hemingway. — Ernest Hemingway,

Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. — Ernest Hemingway,

No one ever stopped when they were winning. — Ernest Hemingway,

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — Ernest Hemingway,

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything. — Ernest Hemingway,

The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end. — Ernest Hemingway,

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? — Ernest Hemingway,

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea ... — Ernest Hemingway,

Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long. — Ernest Hemingway,

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid. — Ernest Hemingway,

Life is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets to crow on it. — Ernest Hemingway,

He said nothing. — Ernest Hemingway,

When you have a child, the world has a hostage. — Ernest Hemingway,

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing. — Ernest Hemingway,

and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He — Ernest Hemingway,

It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought. — Ernest Hemingway,

There was a trout. — Ernest Hemingway,

What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get. — Ernest Hemingway,

Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer. — Ernest Hemingway,

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen. — Ernest Hemingway,

Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling. — Ernest Hemingway,

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it? — Ernest Hemingway,

You're remembering well today,' she said. 'Don't do it too much. — Ernest Hemingway,

He used the word gamut. — Ernest Hemingway,

Start over again. Concentrate." [to a young Ernest Hemingway] — Gertrude Stein

What is moral is what you feel good after. — Ernest Hemingway,

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful. — Ernest Hemingway,