Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American writer

Lived from: 1899 - 1961

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 21 july 1899 Died: 2 july 1961

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  • Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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  • Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7
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  • Do not judge a man by his friends; do not forget that Judas friends were impeccable.
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  • Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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  • 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.
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  • God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
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  • Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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  • Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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  • Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
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  • Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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  • How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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  • I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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  • 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.
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  • 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. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
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  • I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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  • I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
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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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  • I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know.
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  • I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
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  • I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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