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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Ernest Hemingway
Fitness, Health, Order
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.752, Simon and Schuster

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

Ernest Hemingway
Lonely, Loneliness, Night
Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Winning, Needs
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway
People, Listening
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1087, Simon and Schuster

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway
Time, Men, People

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

Ernest Hemingway
Strange, Darling, Be Good

Not the why but the what.

Ernest Hemingway

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

Ernest Hemingway
Appreciation, Wine, Vineyards
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

Ernest Hemingway
Dream, Businessman, Sun Also Rises

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspirational, Leadership, Wise
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Ernest Hemingway
Honesty, Imagination, Imagine
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Want

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

Ernest Hemingway
Jobs, Telling The Truth
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Ernest Hemingway (2009). “Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms”, p.16, Infobase Publishing

Man is not made for defeat.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Perseverance, Self Esteem
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

Ernest Hemingway
Beauty, Echoes, Dying

My big fish must be somewhere.

Ernest Hemingway
Big Fish, Bigs, Old Man
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7213, Simon and Schuster

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

Ernest Hemingway
Spring, Rain, Fall
Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Gajdusek (1978). “Hemingway's Paris”, Scribner Book Company

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Shining, Hammers
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Ernest Hemingway
Sports, Motor Racing, Games
"Bullfighting Also Rises -- For Now" by Paul Wachter, www.esquire.com. February 14, 2013.

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, May, Resolution

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

Ernest Hemingway
Hate, Love Is

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Ernest Hemingway
Light, Age, Body
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

Ernest Hemingway
Broken, Brave, Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway
Powerful, Writing, Character
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

Ernest Hemingway
Dangerous
"The Garden of Eden".

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