1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway


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    Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

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    The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

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    I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

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    I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

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    I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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