Never confuse movement with action.

—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 still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

—Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

—Ernest Hemingway

Yes, now. Now, please now, only now, not anything else only this now, and where are you and where am I and where is the other one, and not why, not ever why, only this now; and on and always please then always now, always now, for now always one now; one only one, there is no other one but one now, one, going now, rising now, sailing now, leaving now, wheeling now, soaring now, away now, all the way now, all of all the way now; one and one is one, is one, is one, is one, is still one, is still one, is one descendingly, is one softly, is one longingly, is one kindly, is one happily, is one in goodness, is one to cherish, is one now…

—Ernest Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

—Ernest Hemingway

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change

—Ernest Hemingway

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All movements go too far.

—Bertrand Russell

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Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

—Norman McLaren

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The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird-watcher in the country.

—John N. Mitchell, U.S. attorney general, 1969-1972

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I saw a stationery store move.

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The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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