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Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes
“Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.”
“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.”
“Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective”
“Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.”
“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”
“You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
“Worry destroys the ability to write.”
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.”
“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.”
“Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.”
“Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”
“There is no rule on how to write.”
“The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.”
“Look at things and listen and feel.”
“No one ever stopped when they were winning.”
“How little we know of what there is to know.”
“Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.”
“Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.”
“Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.”
“I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.”
“Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.”
“If a writer stops observing, he is finished.”
“The best writing is certainly when you are in love”
“Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey”
“The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.”