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

-- 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

"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

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

-- Ernest Hemingway

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty."

-- 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

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

-- 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

"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

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

-- Ernest Hemingway

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

-- 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

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

-- Ernest Hemingway

"You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"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."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"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."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The first and last thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The first and last thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Never mistake motion for action."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Never mistake motion for action."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"In order to write about life first you must live it."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"In order to write about life first you must live it."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The shortest answer is doing."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The shortest answer is doing."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

-- Peter Drucker

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

-- Peter Drucker