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The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Quality, Degrees

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Tolls, Literature
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway
Peace, Military, War

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

Ernest Hemingway
Brother, Stars, Moon
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7241, Simon and Schuster

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

Ernest Hemingway
Order, Crap, Great Writers

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Echoes, People

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Ernest Hemingway
Art, Writing, Novelists
"How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 13, 1950.

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, People
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

Ernest Hemingway
War
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.43, Hamilton Books

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Cameras
"The Spanish Earth". Documentary, War, www.imdb.com. 1937.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.

Ernest Hemingway
Morning, Book, Writing
Source: www.mhpbooks.com

Isn't it pretty to think so.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

Ernest Hemingway
Wind, Flood, Ifs
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

I am always in love.

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.32, Hamilton Books

A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

Ernest Hemingway
Country, Tired, Cutting
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3159, Simon and Schuster

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

Ernest Hemingway
Sleep, People, Together
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.188, Hamilton Books

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Ernest Hemingway
Matter, Meat, Transformation
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Art, Lovely
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2695, Simon and Schuster

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

Ernest Hemingway
Money, Scott Fitzgerald, Different
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938).

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Years, Trying
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Book, Fall
Men Without Women "In Another Country" (1927)

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Ernest Hemingway
Crazy, Literature, Pounds
"The New York Post" Newspaper, January 24, 1957.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

Ernest Hemingway
Summer, Fall, Boys

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Thinking
"The old man and the sea".

Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

Ernest Hemingway
Real, Wine, Oil
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2243, Simon and Schuster

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