Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

—Ernest Hemingway

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About Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Miller Hemingway ( HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six...

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

—Ernest Hemingway

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

—Ernest Hemingway

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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

—Ernest Hemingway

That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

—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.

—Ernest Hemingway

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Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

—W. C. Fields

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Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!

—Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan

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When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy—which could happen to any one of us—we can react in two ways. Obviously, we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, and unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

—14th Dalai Lama

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Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner, but you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead.

—Louis Armstrong

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