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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  • There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
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  • There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
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  • They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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  • They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
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  • They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
    Notes on the Next War (1935)
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  • This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
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  • 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.
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  • We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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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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  • When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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  • When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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  • When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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  • When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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  • Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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  • 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.
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  • You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.
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