Ernest Hemingway

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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.

Ernest Hemingway

good

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

great

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Ernest Hemingway

great

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway

great

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

happiness

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway

happiness

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.

Ernest Hemingway

hope

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway

imagination

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

intelligence

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

learning

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