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"I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults... but I'm very faithful."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults... but I'm very faithful."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?"

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?"

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Every day above ground is a good day."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Every day above ground is a good day."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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

-- Ernest Hemingway

"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

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

-- Ernest Hemingway

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

-- 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

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

-- 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

"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

"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

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

-- Ernest Hemingway

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

-- 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

"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

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

-- Ernest Hemingway