July 21 Quotes

65 quotes in this collection

"The way to make people trustworthy is to trust them."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, crap detector."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making appointments, even the people who were not very nice, the day was always fine."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

-- Ernest Hemingway
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