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What is moral is what you feel good after.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

Ernest Hemingway
Feel Good, Afternoon, Ethics And Morals
Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

Ernest Hemingway
Wisdom, Should, Function
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspirational, Funny, Men
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1106, Simon and Schuster

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Writing, New Beginnings
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Feelings, Contact

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

Ernest Hemingway
Night, Knives, Lasts

I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

Ernest Hemingway
Love You
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

Ernest Hemingway
Enough
Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the Stream”, Macmillan Publishing Company

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Fate, Needs
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Ernest Hemingway
Peace, Military, War

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

Ernest Hemingway
Brother, War, Thinking
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway
Time, Writing, Vision
Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Ernest Hemingway
Love You
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4905, Simon and Schuster

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

Ernest Hemingway
Forgiving, Ifs
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2894, Simon and Schuster

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

Ernest Hemingway
Death, Suicide, Stories
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ernest Hemingway
Truth, Book, Reading
Esquire, Dec. 1934

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

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

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Ernest Hemingway
Time, Hero, Age
"How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 13, 1950.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ernest Hemingway
Success, Popular Song, Reason
"That Summer in Paris". Book by Morley Callaghan, 1963.

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

Ernest Hemingway
Needs, Hem, Mystery
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

Ernest Hemingway
Night, Bills, Remember
Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.72, U of Nebraska Press

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Knowing, Trying
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2192, Simon and Schuster

People fall in love, but have to climb out.

Ernest Hemingway
Falling In Love, Fall, People

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