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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

- Ernest Hemingway | Books and Reading Quotes

You lose it if you talk about it.

- Ernest Hemingway | Creation and Creativity Quotes

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

- Ernest Hemingway | Life Quotes

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

- Ernest Hemingway | Mistakes and Blunders Quotes

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

- Ernest Hemingway | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

- Ernest Hemingway | Travel and Travellers Quotes

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

- Ernest Hemingway | Writers and Writing Quotes

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

- Ernest Hemingway | Writers and Writing Quotes

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

- Ernest Hemingway | Writers and Writing Quotes

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

- Ernest Hemingway | Simplicity Quotes

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

- Ernest Hemingway | Role Models Quotes

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

- Ernest Hemingway | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

- Ernest Hemingway | Courage Quotes

Courage is grace under pressure.

- Ernest Hemingway | Courage Quotes

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

- Ernest Hemingway | Getting Going Quotes

Never mistake motion for action.

- Ernest Hemingway | Women's Movement Quotes

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

- Ernest Hemingway | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

- Ernest Hemingway | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes