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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.


Ernest Hemingway

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“Elton John?”
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LEIGH BARDUGO 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
ELIZABETH OLSEN I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.
DONALD TRUMP Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
JACK PAAR [About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we�...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be...
NIKKI ROWE I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
TIFFANY MADISON Don’t kill me,” he sobbed as he lay there. “Oh God, please don’t kill me.”
“If you ...
DEREK LANDY I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads...
JOHN KRASINSKI Oh, Micheal darling!"
"Don't call me darling, I'm a driving instructor!
HILARY MCKAY How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
SYLVIA PLATH Was my happiness so completely tied to him now that I could only feel like myself when he was near?
PAULA MCLAIN You can make a lot of money doing the right thing
SOTONYE ANGA Oh,” Lewis said, “well if you won’t let us then— Wait…wait a minute.… I’m looking at m...
ANDY WEIR if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR Since we’re playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze.
“...
ILONA ANDREWS He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
(on Ernest H...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Oh, he’s an old friend from the West,” said Eden easily. “I won’t introduce you, because he ...
WILLA CATHER When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his in...
ARTHUR PHILLIPS The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway
JENNIFER NIVEN Darling, face it, you just don't have a life!
AMANDA MCBROOM With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.
SHANNON L. ALDER From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by m...
NADINE GORDIMER Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you th...
STEPHENIE MEYER The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everythin...
BRAD PITT In some strange way, this was meant to be.
JOEL GRETSCH If you want success, you have to accept that results won’t be instantaneous. Everything good takes...
AVINA CELESTE So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER Millay sonnets sound like a lecherous cat.
MICHAEL S. REYNOLDS Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding ...
NAOMI WOOD Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?”
With that, she sighed. “S...
NICHOLAS SPARKS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, h...
IRWIN SHAW Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to stuggle for life!
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JIM HARRISON Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Worrying won’t get you anywhere, trusting God and letting Him lead you on will help you achieve ev...
LATIKA TEOTIA When you make choices, please remember: what is good for you but not good for others won’t be good...
ILCHI LEE You have to promise that you won’t fall in love with me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined tha...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You terrify me. But not enough to make me think you won’t be worth it.
LEISA RAYVEN When she performs, you don't worry about it. With some girls, it's like, 'Oh, gosh,' because you don...
JUANITA NIX Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have...
PETER DE VRIES What if I fall? Oh,but my darling,what if you fly?
ERIN HANSON Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life ...
DONNA FARGO I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist...
LINDA MCCARTNEY A fine idea,” said Rhy. “But no. We must go out, you see, because we’re on a mission.”
V.E. SCHWAB You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
JEFF BEZOS (Ren's) eyes were sad but resigned. “And where will you go?”
I couldn’t keep the fear out...
ANDREA CREMER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Denial can be confusing because it resembles sleeping. We’re not really aware we’re doing it unt...
MELODY BEATTIE Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
ANNE SEXTON Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice...
DEREK LANDY Just a shower. If you want me to stay on the opposite side, I will. I won’t kiss. I won’t touch....
KATIE MCGARRY To lovers out there....

If he tells you “ Stop working, stop studying, stop dreaming, s...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Darling,
You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obsc...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who reread...
JOHN KRASINSKI Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude...
LOUISE ERDRICH I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territo...
EARTHA KITT Because I don’t live in either my past or my future, I’m interested only in the present. If you ...
PAULO COELHO Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all...
ANNE RICE When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Check out the magic crap.” He shot me a look. “Oh, is that what we’re supposed to be doing? Be...
RACHEL HAWKINS Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you somethin...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Personally, I thin knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice s...
DEREK LANDY Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice ...
DEREK LANDY Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. ...
CHARLES DANCE I won’t stay,” I warned him. “I won’t try to fight for you anymore. This is it. If you walk ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Why do we have to do this in the middle of the night?” Taylor asked.
“Because we don’t wa...
MICHAEL GRANT [Sir Anthony Hopkins has been earmarked to play Nobel prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway in a n...
ROGER DONALDSON To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD So does that mean if you won’t fuck me because I’m high, I could fuck you because you’re not?
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that dist...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never mistake motion for action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All things truly wicked start from innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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