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Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
- I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- 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.
- 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.
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
- 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.
- 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.
- In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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