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I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely

I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

Ernest Hemingway
Athlete, Choices, Soul
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Worry destroys the ability to write.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Worry, Ability
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.12, Melville House

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspirational, Country, Cycling
"By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway". Book edited by William White, 1967.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Reading, Writing

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Ifs
Winner Take Nothing "Fathers and Sons" (1933)

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Ernest Hemingway
Rotten, Bedroom, Habit
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.8, Hamilton Books

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Details, Finished

In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Morning, Lying
"True at First Light" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 10), 1999.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Ernest Hemingway
Tolls, Fascists, Knows
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

Ernest Hemingway
Safety, Wife, Risk
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

Ernest Hemingway
Girl, Farewell To Arms, Another Girl
Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

Ernest Hemingway
Running, Hard Work, Ideas
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

Ernest Hemingway
Dog, Writing, Differences
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.712, Simon and Schuster

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

Ernest Hemingway
Life
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7290, Simon and Schuster

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

Ernest Hemingway
Filled Up, Emptiness, Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

Ernest Hemingway
Simple, Cities, Paris
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

Ernest Hemingway
Smart, Heart, Decision
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2626, Simon and Schuster

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Political, Luck
"Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba". Esquire, December 1934.

Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway
Heart, Broken, Stronger
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Two, Long
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Men, Literature

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Ernest Hemingway
World, Six, Creation
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

Ernest Hemingway
Atheist, Men, Labels

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

Ernest Hemingway
Atheist, Ice, Hot

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Ernest Hemingway
Way, Knows, One Way
Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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