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Hemingway said:
'It don't come anymore.'
So where did it go? — William S. Burroughs

It's not a problem to be great and do good things. — Anthony Hemingway

I always like the bad ones. I know he's a bad one of some sort. — Ernest Hemingway,

All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk.
All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk. — Ernest Hemingway,

You bitch,' he said. 'You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry. — Ernest Hemingway,

Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work. — Ernest Hemingway,

I think it's the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it's cool. — Mariel Hemingway

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't. — Ernest Hemingway,

Poverty is a disease that's cured by the medicine of money. — A. E. Hotchner

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them. — Ernest Hemingway,

Is dying hard, Daddy?
No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. — Ernest Hemingway,

Say, there's plenty of Americans on this train. They've got seven cars of them from Dayton, Ohio. — Ernest Hemingway,

Let's not talk about how I am. It's a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore. — Ernest Hemingway,

When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it. — Anthony Hemingway

Hemingway's remarks are not literature. — Gertrude Stein

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer. — Ernest Hemingway,

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening. — Mariel Hemingway

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know. — Ernest Hemingway,

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make. — Mariel Hemingway

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you. — Ernest Hemingway,

If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems. — Mariel Hemingway

He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing. — Ernest Hemingway,

Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's a town you come to for a short time. — Ernest Hemingway,

Do you feel better?' he asked.
'I feel fine,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine. — Ernest Hemingway,

The writer's job is to tell the truth, — Ernest Hemingway,

The war seemed as far away as the football games of someone else's college. — Ernest Hemingway,

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. — Ernest Hemingway,

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. — Ernest Hemingway,

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. — Nadine Gordimer

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 another. — Ernest Hemingway,

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do. — Ernest Hemingway,

This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed. — Ernest Hemingway,

This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer. — Ernest Hemingway,

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life. — Mariel Hemingway

of Esquire contained an article entitled "On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," written by the magazine's — Ernest Hemingway,

No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me. — Ernest Hemingway,

Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve. — Lesley M.M. Blume

I'm not joking you. I never joke people. Joke people and you make enemies. That's what I always say. — Ernest Hemingway,

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. — Ernest Hemingway,

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. — Ernest Hemingway,

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves. — Mariel Hemingway

Let's drop the war.'
'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it. — Ernest Hemingway,

Where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go. — Ernest Hemingway,

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. — Ernest Hemingway,

[about Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises] His characters are as shallow as the saucers in which they stack their daily emotions. — The New York Times

The fish's eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope or as a saint in a procession. — Ernest Hemingway,

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel... — Ernest Hemingway,

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. — Ernest Hemingway,

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks? — Ernest Hemingway,

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong. — Ernest Hemingway,

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. — Ernest Hemingway,

You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight. — Ernest Hemingway,

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand. — Ernest Hemingway,

In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings. — Ernest Hemingway,

Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

Because she had done the best she could for many years back and the way they were together now was no one person's fault. — Ernest Hemingway,

We are all broken. That's how lights get in — Ernest Hemingway,

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. — Ernest Hemingway,

I love men's clothes, but that doesn't make me a weirdo. — Margaux Hemingway

We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though. — Ernest Hemingway,

I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature. — John Fante

Here's the beautiful lady with the beer. — Ernest Hemingway,

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous. — Ernest Hemingway,

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister. — Kinky Friedman

No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it. — Ernest Hemingway,

You want everything so much and when you get it it's over and you don't give a damn. — Ernest Hemingway,

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails. — Lesley M.M. Blume

What's ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn't they? — Danielle Steel

She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people. — Ernest Hemingway,

THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT'S painless," he said. "That's how you know when it starts. — Ernest Hemingway,

There isn't any need to deny everything there's been just because you are going to lose it. — Ernest Hemingway,

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real. — Mariel Hemingway

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people. — Mariel Hemingway

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it's never done. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing. — Anthony Hemingway

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

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken. — Ernest Hemingway,

Do you suppose it will always go on?"
"No."
"What's to stop it?"
It will crack somewhere. — Ernest Hemingway,

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience. — Mariel Hemingway

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it. — Ernest Hemingway,

They are strong," David said. "But there's a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind. — Ernest Hemingway,

I've suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it's probably - not probably - it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle. — Mariel Hemingway

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. — Ernest Hemingway,

If I do it you won't ever worry?'
'I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.'
Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought. — Ernest Hemingway,

There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide. — Ernest Hemingway,

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. — Ernest Hemingway,

We are all broken - that's how the light gets in. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough. — Ernest Hemingway,

There's so much music going on in New Orleans. — Anthony Hemingway

I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it. — Hunter S. Thompson

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. — George Packer

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own. — Alfred Kazin