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30 quotes (Page 1 of 2 pages)A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Defeat
Ernest Hemingway
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Comedy and Comedians
Ernest Hemingway
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Words
Ernest Hemingway
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Words
Ernest Hemingway
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All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
Innocence
Ernest Hemingway
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Ernest Hemingway
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Age and Aging
Ernest Hemingway
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Uncategorised
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Courage is grace under pressure.
Courage
Ernest Hemingway
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Uncertainty
Ernest Hemingway
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I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway
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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.
Truth
Ernest Hemingway
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Listening
Ernest Hemingway
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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
Fights and Fighting
Ernest Hemingway
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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
Purpose
Ernest Hemingway
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Man is not made for defeat.
Potential
Ernest Hemingway
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Simplicity
Ernest Hemingway
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Retirement
Ernest Hemingway
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Evil
Ernest Hemingway
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Adversity
Ernest Hemingway
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The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
World
Ernest Hemingway
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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway
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There is no friend as loyal as a book
Friends and Friendship
Ernest Hemingway
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun