Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway quotes

• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed

  Ernest Hemingway

• Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

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• It was papa made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him.

  Ernest Hemingway

• I’ll get the cast net and go for sardines. Will you sit in the sun in the doorway?

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• You make me happy. I hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong

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• Now I must get your sardines and mine and your fresh baits. He brings our gear himself. He neve r wants anyone to carry anything.

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• Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel.

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• I'm not interested in bull-fighters. That's an abnormal life. I want to go back in the country in South America. We could have a great trip.

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• Take a good rest, small bird. Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

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• That's because you never read a book about it. Go on and read a book all full of love affairs with the beautiful shiny black princesses.

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• Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

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• Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

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• Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

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• Listen, going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

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• Look how he knows how to use his horns, I said. He's got a left and a right just like a boxer.

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• When the next bull came out, all three, the two bulls and the steer, stood together, their heads side by side,

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• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

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• A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.

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• I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

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• There isnt always an explanation for everything.

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• he world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

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• Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

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• ou know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

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• I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

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• All right. I'll grow one. I'll start now this minute. It's a good idea. It will give me something to do.

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• hey do not grow wise. They grow careful.

  Ernest Hemingway