1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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    You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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    You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

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    I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

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    When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

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    To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

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    The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

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