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Without further ado here are the promised Ernest Hemingway quotes:

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

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”

“Never confuse movement with action.”

“There's noonething that's true. It's all true.”

“He always thought of the sea as la mar, which is what people call her in spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her, but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fisherman, those who used buoys as floats for their lines or had motorboats bought when the shark lovers had much money, spoke of her as el mar, which is masculine, they spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine, as something that gave or withheld great favors. If she did wild or wicked things, it is because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”

“Every day above earth is a good day.”

"We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don't cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist."

“ll good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you.... If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Death is like an old whore in a bar- I’ll buy her a drink, but I won’t go upstairs with her.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”