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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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#father #first #kid #look #rule

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#broaden #i #like #mind #standing

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#artist #depression #good #known #mood

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#assume #events #great #his #invention

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#aspects #because #become #popular #reasons

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#book #come #consider #could #hope

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#cause #conditions #just #motive #necessary

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#been #columnists #grass #had #him

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#before #easy #i #just #out