Ernest Hemingway Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
-- Ernest HemingwaySource : Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
-- Ernest HemingwaySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.”
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“Never mistake motion for action.”
-- Ernest HemingwaySource : Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
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“To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.”
-- Ernest HemingwaySource : Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.286, Ballantine Books
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“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
-- Ernest HemingwaySource : Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
-- Ernest HemingwaySource : "How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.
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“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
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“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
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“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.”
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“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
-- Ernest HemingwaySource : William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, p.13, New Directions Publishing
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“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
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“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”
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“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.”
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“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
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“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
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“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
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“God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her”
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“I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.”
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“I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”
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“There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.”
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“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”
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“I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.”
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“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.”
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“You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”
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“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
-- Ernest Hemingway
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