35 Most Epic Quotes Of Ernest Hemingway

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Here is a list of the 35 most epic quotes of Ernest Hemingway, who was one of the eminent, most influential novelist, short story writer, Noble laureate in literature and Pulitzer prize winner in fiction. He was also the writer of the masterpiece  "The Old Man And The Sea."

Like his classic work in literature and fiction, his quotes also pack a mighty punch of wisdom, insight and valuable guidance. There is something to learn and get inspired by each and every quote.

Most Epic Quotes Of Ernest Hemingway

1) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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2) you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

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3) How little we know of what there is to know.

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

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5) 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.

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6) All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

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7) That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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8) The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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9) From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

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10) Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually, they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

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11) The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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12) Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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13) We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

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14) Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

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15) 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 it 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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16) Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

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17) There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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18) The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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19) I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

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20) Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

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21) The night is always darker before the dawn and life are the same, the hard times will pass, everything will get better and the sun will shine brighter than ever.

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22) The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

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23) Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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24) Never mistake motion for action.

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25) Look at things
and listen
and feel.

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26) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

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27) The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

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28) 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.

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29) Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

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30) The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

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31) The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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32) I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

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33) You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trustworthy is to trust them.

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34) Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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35) Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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