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Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Courage is grace under pressure.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Never mistake motion for action.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
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