Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it’s not much use.
ERNEST HEMINGWAYEverything is your fault if you’re any damn good.
More Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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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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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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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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We wait always for something that does not come.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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No one you love is ever truly lost.
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.
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You’ll lose it, if you talk about it.
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You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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The first draft of anything is shit.
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I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.
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Look at things and listen and feel.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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All thinking men are atheists.
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There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!
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Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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