Ernest Hemingway

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"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."

— Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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“All thinking men are atheists.”

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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“Never confuse movement with action.”

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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"Courage is grace under pressure"

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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"Write drunk; edit sober."

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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“Gradually and then suddenly.”

― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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“…that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

— Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)