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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway

War

Crime

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway

Business

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Ernest Hemingway

Death

End

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

Ernest Hemingway

Trust

Man is not made for defeat.

Ernest Hemingway

Defeat

Man

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.

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway

Action

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

Love

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

Ernest Hemingway

People

Listening

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 moveable feast.