Ernest Hemingway Quotes - 9quotes.com

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Written by Ernest Hemingway
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Never mistake motion for action.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
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.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
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.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
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.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
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.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Written by Ernest Hemingway

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