Ernest Hemingway

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• When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

• Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all wh...

• Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The barte...

• The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

• 'Never mistake motion for action.”

• This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

• I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

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

• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. War

• There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

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