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Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes
“How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.”
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”
“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is”
“You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”
“I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
“And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.”
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
“Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.”
“You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.”
“And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No”
“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
“Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.”
“If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”