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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Men, Self

Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Bully, Fascism
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.193, Univ. Press of Mississippi

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Bigs, Plausible
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Past, Murder
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.193, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Intelligent, Found Happiness
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1970). “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM”

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Sleep, Insomnia
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Morning, Lying
"True at First Light" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 10), 1999.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Want, Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.62, Hamilton Books

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Talent, Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Care, Firsts
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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