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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Ernest Hemingway
Girl, Writing, Hunting
Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

Ernest Hemingway
Wise, Life Lesson, Army
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Ernest Hemingway
Hail, Thee
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Events, Assuming
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

Ernest Hemingway
Acquiring Things, Afternoon, Paid
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

Ernest Hemingway
Life Lesson, Men, Tolls
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2933, Simon and Schuster

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Good Luck, Long
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

Ernest Hemingway
My Best Friend, Bulls, Said
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.94, Hamilton Books

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Doe, Mystery

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

Ernest Hemingway
Fall, Ruins
Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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.

Ernest Hemingway
Doctors, Practice Of Medicine, Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

Ernest Hemingway
Trying, Looks, Drink
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Men Without Women”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Ernest Hemingway
Depression, Depressing, Artist
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

Ernest Hemingway
Appreciation, Survival, Beloved
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.29, Melville House

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

Ernest Hemingway
Eye, Men, Thinking
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

Ernest Hemingway
Games, Bridges, Romance

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Ernest Hemingway
America, And Love, Literature

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

Ernest Hemingway
Liars, Taken, Writing
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, New Beginnings, Trying
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

Ernest Hemingway
Believe, Fighting, Long
"Paris Review interview". Interview with George Plimpton, Paris Review Issue 18, Spring, 1958.

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.

Ernest Hemingway
Way, Invention, Inventor
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.407, Simon and Schuster

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway
Literature, Architecture, Baroque Music
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Ernest Hemingway
Real, Book, Mean

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

Ernest Hemingway
Prose Writing, Addresses, Gettysburg
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Ernest Hemingway
Growing Up, School, Reform
Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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