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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

«All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse,»
«Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.»
«My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: Writing | Keywords: My Aim, on paper, put down, simplest
«But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: War | Keywords: modern, no-good
«I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.»
«Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.»
«All things truly wicked start from an innocence.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | Keywords: innocence, wick, wicked
«The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at 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 that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.»
«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.»
«That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | Keywords: supposed, well-made

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