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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Ernest Hemingway
Talking, Please
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7566, Simon and Schuster

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Conversation, Good Conversation

There are worse places to be than on your own.

Ernest Hemingway
Independence
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Answers, Literature

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Ernest Hemingway
Reading, Book, Writing
"The Figure a Poem Makes". Book by Ernest Hemingway, 1939.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.

Ernest Hemingway
Nice, Mean, Together

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Simple, Thinking

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

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters
"Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" by James Joiner, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Time, Learning
"Death in the Afternoon". Book by Ernest Hemingway, chapter 16, 1932.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

Ernest Hemingway
Night, Day Night, Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Years, One Day
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Ernest Hemingway
Bad Ass, Bullshit, Ass

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

Ernest Hemingway
Funny, Sports, Real

Write drunk; edit sober.

Ernest Hemingway
Witty, Clever, Humorous

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Ernest Hemingway
Life Lesson, Fisherman, Great Ones
Ernest Hemingway (1963). “老人与海”

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

Ernest Hemingway
Enjoy, Knows
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4542, Simon and Schuster

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Blow, Fog

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Ernest Hemingway
Fighting, Evil, Tonight
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4492, Simon and Schuster

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Old Man, Longer Days
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.6, Hamilton Books

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

Ernest Hemingway
Ideas, Stories, Sometimes
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.123, Univ. Press of Mississippi

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway
Motivational, Inspiring, Fear
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Children, Creativity

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Ernest Hemingway
Kids, Long, People

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Ernest Hemingway
Truth, Freedom, Writing
Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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