Ernest Hemingway
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“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” -Ernest Hemingway
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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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“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” -Ernest Hemingway
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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.” -Ernest Hemingway
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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.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Courage is grace under pressure.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.” -Ernest Hemingway
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. – Ernest Hemingway
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