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The first draft of anything is sh*t.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Creativity, Firsts

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Stuff, Throwing

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Great Writing

The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

Ernest Hemingway
Retirement, Fate, Choices
"Papa Hemingway". Book by A.E. Hotchner, pt. 3, ch.12, 1966.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway
Broken, Stronger, Break

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Ernest Hemingway
Love, Romantic, Stars
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Finals, World

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

Ernest Hemingway
Ifs, Loses
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Sun Also Rises”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Soil, Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway
Spring, People, Limits
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

Ernest Hemingway
Today, Saws, I Loved You
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Ernest Hemingway
Love You, Sacrifice, Wish
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.44, Hamilton Books

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

Ernest Hemingway
Church, Hell, States
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspirational, Military, War
Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

Ernest Hemingway
Winning
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Action, Emotion

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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

One cat just leads to another.

Ernest Hemingway
Cat, Animal, Humanity
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.555, Simon and Schuster

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Ernest Hemingway
Optimism, Fool, Accepting

Everybody has something wrong with them.

Ernest Hemingway
Faults
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Tired, Thinking

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

Ernest Hemingway
Crazy, Thinking, Talking
"The Old Man and the Sea".

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Ernest Hemingway
People, Use, Bitter
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Ernest Hemingway
Live Life To The Fullest, Feelings, Half
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

Ernest Hemingway
Discipline, Firsts, Talent

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