Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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  • Never mistake motion for action.
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  • They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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  • America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
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  • What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
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  • The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
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  • Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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  • For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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  • Courage is grace under pressure.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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  • Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
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  • To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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  • I'm not going to climb into the ring with Tolstoy.
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  • Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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  • But did thee feel the earth move?
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  • But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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  • In order to write about life, first you must live it!
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  • Live life to the fullest.
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  • Grace under Pressure.
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  • I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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  • When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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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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  • Never confuse movement with action.
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