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 HEMINGWAYHappiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
More Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Everything is your fault if you’re any damn good.
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
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Hunger is good discipline.
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Courage is grace under pressure.
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
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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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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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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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Write drunk; edit sober.
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.
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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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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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Every day above earth is a good day.
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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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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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A bottle of wine was good company.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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