Ernest Hemingway

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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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

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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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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