"No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart."
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Ernest Hemingway quotes (page 18 of 40)
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"I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else."
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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
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"I was always embarresed 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 stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
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"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."
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"Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons."
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"He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have."
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"There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span."
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"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment."
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"I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word."
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"No horse named Morbid ever won a race."
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"There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me."
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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
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"The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs."
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"I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made."
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"There's no one thing that's true. It's all true."
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"You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer."
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"I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend."
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"Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America."
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"To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material."
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