There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don’t ever tell which is which.
ERNEST HEMINGWAYWork every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
More Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.
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The only decent bone in her body was mine.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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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.
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Write drunk; edit sober.
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Work could cure almost anything.
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.
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Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
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Look at things and listen and feel.
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There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
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Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.
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You must be prepared to work always without applause.
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Being against evil doesn’t make you good.
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