You're remembering well today,' she said. 'Don't do it too much.

Ernest Hemingway


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But walking down the stairs feeling each stair carefully and holding to the banister he thought, I must get her away and get her away as soon as I can without hurting her. Because I am not doing too well at this. That I can promise you. But what else can you do? Nothing, he thought. There's nothing you can do. But maybe, as you go along, you will get good at it.

Ernest Hemingway


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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Ernest Hemingway


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The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

Ernest Hemingway

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The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.

Ernest Hemingway

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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?

Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Ernest Hemingway

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No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Ernest Hemingway

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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Ernest Hemingway


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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

Ernest Hemingway

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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Ernest Hemingway


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