Ernest Hemingway

journalist/novelist (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954)

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The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.

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This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

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She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

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They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking.

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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes.

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People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people.

[Ernest Hemingway @E_Hemingway_]

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another

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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

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he became conscious of his damaged wings...

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Maybe ... you'll fall in love with me all over again

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I’m not brave any more, darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

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Forget your personal tragedy.

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The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

[Ernest Hemingway @E_Hemingway_]

The first draft of anything is shit.

[Ernest Hemingway @E_Hemingway_]

Write drunk; edit sober.

[Ernest Hemingway @E_Hemingway_]

I drink to make other people more interesting.

[Ernest Hemingway @E_Hemingway_]

My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake.