1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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    From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

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    To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

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    Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

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    I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.

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    To be a successful father, there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

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    There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.

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  • Author Ernest Hemingway
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    To be a successful father there is one absolute rule: when you have a kid don't look at it for the first two years.

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