Inspiring Quotes by Ernest Hemingway - Page 2

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"For a war to be just, three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive"

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can"

"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it"

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

"A man can be destroyed, but not defeated"

"You're beautiful, like a May fly"

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

"Writing and travel broaden your ass, if not your mind; and I like to write standing up"

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first"

"When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature"

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it"

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

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge"

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

"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor"

"As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary"

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture"

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists"

"That terrible mood of depression, of whether it's any good or not, is what is known as The Artist's Reward"

"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin!"

"Courage is grace under pressure"

"There's no one thing that is true. They're all true"

"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl"

"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me"

"To be a successful father... There's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years"

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