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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about bad, doubt, rightness, time, contentment

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about tragedy, hell, use, contentment

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about god, contentment

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about bad luck, moral, bad, good, good luck, contentment

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about sleep, fall, love, life, contentment

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.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about feast, rest, contentment, man, life

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.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about bad, success, contentment, work

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about reason, war, death, good, good luck, contentment

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about affair, contentment

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about love, death, end, contentment

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about poets, contentment

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about writing, nothing, contentment

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.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about rules, absolute, contentment

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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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.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about good, good luck, contentment