100+ Ernest Hemingway Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

I drink to make other people more interesting.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Alcohol Drunk Humour Interesting People
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Come Coward Love
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Crime Justified Necessary Thinking War
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Build Bullshit Development
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Battle Come Criticize High Men Place Shoot Survive
Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Born Feeling Home Man Outside
There are worse places to be than on your own.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Home Place
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Complete Concern Empathy Listen People Talk
If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Attitude Care Crazy Hear Thinking
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Fellow Improvement Man Noble Superior
We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Book Couple Night Romantic Togetherness Valentine Window
Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Action Business Confuse Inspirational Movement One Liner
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Brave Broken Heart Darling Hurt Pain
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Fade Healing Hope Hurt Inspirational Lost Night Rain
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Reading Tears Writing
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Book Friendship Loyalty One Liner
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Alcohol Bottle Couple Delay Girl Kiss Pretty Whisky
All thinking men are atheists.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Atheist Men One Liner
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Alcohol Drunk Shut Sober Teaching
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Dead Enjoyment Fun Inspirational Stop
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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Sentence Truth Writing
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Happiness Intelligence People Rare
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Defeat Destroy Entrepreneur Inspirational Man One Liner
No one you love is ever truly lost.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Lost Love One Liner True
Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Acceptance Failure Fools Optimism
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Absolute Cat Emotional Honesty Human Reason
Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Life Man Novel One Liner Story

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