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

From a set of "rules for life" sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner's memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=yYdHGtlgIsYC&pg=PA64&dq=hemingway+%22rules+for+life%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-zvyfgNDMAhUJ_mMKHU6zDrYQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%20%22rules%20for%20life%22&f=false

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Never fall in love?"
"Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

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

Ernest Hemingway

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 2
Context: I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

No source in Hemingway's works has been found. May have originated in a 2000 post to the Usenet group alt.support.depression. link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.support.depression/wYH4aCNHyp4/_d50yuXTeHsJ <br class="br">Disputed

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

Ernest Hemingway

Variant: There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

“My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.”

Ernest Hemingway

Letter (15 May 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

Ernest Hemingway

“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.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 34

“Maybe… you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”