1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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    Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

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    Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

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    The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards.

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    I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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    In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

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    For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

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    There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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