1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway


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    The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

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    The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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    She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

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    I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

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    Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

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