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Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes
“Being against evil doesn't make you good.”
“Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.”
“However you make your living is where your talent lies.”
“In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.”
“Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.”
“You never understand anybody that loves you.”
“The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.”
“Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.”
“French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.”
“Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.”
“The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.”
“Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.”
“Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.”
“Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.”
“I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.”
“Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.”
“I am like a blind pig when I work.”
“The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.”
“All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.”