Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Quote by Ernest Hemingway
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
- 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.
- All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
- His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
- A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
- Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
- 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.
- The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
- 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.
- The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
- The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Best Quotes
- Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.
- Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
- The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
- I drive an electric car.
- Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
- Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
- I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.