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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#2

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

tags: sleep

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#3

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

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#4

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

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#5

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#6

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

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#7

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: atheism, inspirational

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#8

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

tags: trust, truth

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#9

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

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#10

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

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#11

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

tags: war

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#12

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: cats

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#13

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

tags: drinking

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#14

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#15

“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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#16

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#17

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: poetry

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#18

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

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#19

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#20

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#21

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

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#22

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing

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#23

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

tags: history, lessons

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#24

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: doomed-to-repeat-it, history, learning, school

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#25

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle

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#26

“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

tags: evil, good, history, invincibility, tyrants, victory

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#27

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: history, humanity, philosophy

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#28

“The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
(Analects 2.11)”
― Confucius

tags: history, teachers, wisdom

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#29

“If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”
― Albert Einstein

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#30

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

tags: books, education, reading

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