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Never mistake motion for action.
Category: Action Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Category: Alcohol Author: Ernest Hemingway
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
Category: Bicycling Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Category: Courage Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Category: Fishing Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Always do sober what you said you\'d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Category: Speaking Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Category: War Author: Ernest Hemingway
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Category: War Author: Ernest Hemingway
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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.
Category: Writing Author: Ernest Hemingway
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