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All thinking men are atheists.

All thinking men are atheists.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspirational, Death, Atheist
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.4, Hamilton Books

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

Ernest Hemingway
Aids, Born, Ifs
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Wicked, Literature
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

Ernest Hemingway
Tired, Forgive Me, Forgiving

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice, Wells

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

Ernest Hemingway
Being Positive, Negative, Use
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1970). “Ernest Hemingway, cub reporter: Kansas City Star stories”

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Ernest Hemingway
Birthday, Risk, Age
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Ernest Hemingway
Eye, Color, Sea
Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.5, Hueber Verlag

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Feel Good, Afternoon
Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

Ernest Hemingway
Faults, Damn, Damn Things
Ernest Hemingway (1963). “Green Hills of Africa”, Scribner

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

Ernest Hemingway
Bad Ass, Tables, Bars

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Ernest Hemingway
Chance, Given, Behave

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

Ernest Hemingway
Cancer, Reflection, Erosion
Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.5, Hueber Verlag

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Ernest Hemingway
Peace, War, Wipe
"Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

Ernest Hemingway
Coffins, Smallest

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

Ernest Hemingway
Relationship, Good Night, Goodbye

At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Night, Knowing

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Ernest Hemingway
Retirement, Work, Age

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway
Friendship, Powerful, Book
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway
Trust, People, Littles
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.805, Simon and Schuster

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Ernest Hemingway
Nature, Father, Moon
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

Never confuse movement with action.

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

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

Ernest Hemingway
Farewell, Writing, Arms

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

Ernest Hemingway
Died
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Ernest Hemingway
Intelligent, Men, Two

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