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Remember Everything Is Right Until It's Wrong. You'll Know When It's Wrong.
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Remember Everything Is Right

Ernest Hemingway
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Remember Everything Is Right Until It's Wrong. You'll Know When It's Wrong.

Understanding the Quote: "remember everything is right until it's wrong. you'll know when it's wrong...."

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Republic
Been In Love
To Be A Successful Father... There's One Absolute Rule: When You Have A Kid, Don't Look At It For The First Two Years.
Funny
Fathers Day
Dad
When You Have A Child, The World Has A Hostage.
Children
World
Hostage
I Would Write One True Sentence, And Then Go On From There.
Writing
Goes On
Moveable Feast
Everybody Is Friends When Things Are Bad Enough.
Enough
There Is No Friend As Loyal As A Book.
Friendship
Powerful
Book
The Only Place Where You Could See Life And Death, I. E., Violent Death Now That The Wars Were Over, Was In The Bull Ring And I Wanted Very Much To Go To Spain Where I Could Study It. I Was Trying To Learn To Write, Commencing With The Simplest Things, And One Of The Simplest Things Of All And The Most Fundamental Is Violent Death.
War
Writing
Life And Death
Dying Was Nothing And He Had No Picture Of It Nor Fear Of It In His Mind. But Living Was A Field Of Grain Blowing In The Wind On The Side Of A Hill. Living Was A Hawk In The Sky. Living Was An Earthen Jar Of Water In The Dust Of The Threshing With The Grain Flailed Out And The Chaff Blowing. Living Was A Horse Between Your Legs And A Carbine Under One Leg And A Hill And A Valley And A Stream With Trees Along It And The Far Side Of The Valley And The Hills Beyond.
Inspiring
Horse
Dust
Cowardice, As Distinguished From Panic, Is Almost Always Simply A Lack Of Ability To Suspend The Functioning Of The Imagination. Learning To Suspend Your Imagination And Live Completely In The Very Second Of The Present With No Before And No After Is The Greatest Gift A Soldier Can Acquire.
Life
Death
Military
Listen Now. When People Talk Listen Completely. Don't Be Thinking What You're Going To Say. Most People Never Listen. Nor Do They Observe.
Thinking
People
But Paris Was A Very Old City And We Were Young And Nothing Was Simple There.
Simple
Cities
Paris
How Would That Premise Stand Up If He Examined It? That Was Probably Why The Communists Were Always Cracking Down On Bohemiansism. When You Were Drunk Or When You Committed Adultery You Recognised Your Own Personal Fallability Of That So Mutable Substitute For The Apostles' Creed, The Party Line. Down With Bohemianism, The Sin Of Majakowski.
Party
Drunk
Lines
For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.
Baby
Shoes
Worn
One Cat Just Leads To Another. The Place Is So Damned Big It Doesn't Really Seem As Though There Were Many Cats Until You See Them All Moving Like A Mass Migration At Feeding Time.
Moving
Cat
Pet
Be Fully In The Moment,open Yourself To The Powerful Energies Dancing Around You.
Powerful
Men
Dancing
Tell Me Some True Things About Fighting.''tell Me You Love Me.''i Love You,' The Girl Said. 'you Can Publish It In The Gazzettino If You Like. I Love Your Hard, Flat Body And Your Strange Eyes That Frighten Me When They Become Wicked. I Love Your Hand And All Your Other Wounded Places.
Girl
Love You
Eye
It Was Like Certain Dinners I Remember From The War. There Was Much Wine, An Ignored Tension, And A Feeling Of Things Coming That You Could Not Prevent Happening. Under The Wine I Lost The Disgusted Feeling And Was Happy. It Seemed They Were All Such Nice People.
War
Nice
Wine
When You Start To Live Outside Yourself, It's All Dangerous.
Dangerous
Never Mistake Motive For Action.
Mistake
Action
Motive
I Wish I Had Died Before I Ever Loved Anyone But Her.
Wish
Died
Dying Is A Very Simple Thing. I've Looked At Death And Really I Know. If I Should Have Died It Would Have Been Very Easy For Me. Quite The Easiest Thing I Ever Did. But The People At Home Do Not Realize That. They Suffer A Thousand Times More.
Death
Home
Simple
It Is Impossible To Believe The Emotional And Spiritual Intensity And Pure, Classic Beauty That Can Be Produced By A Man, An Animal, And A Piece Of Scarlet Serge Draped Over A Stick.
Spiritual
Believe
Animal
Wine Is A Grand Thing," I Said. "it Makes You Forget All The Bad.
Wine
Farewell To Arms
Forget
It Is Good That We Do Not Have To Try To Kill The Sun Or The Moon Or The Stars. It Is Enough To Live On The Sea And Kill Our True Brothers.
Brother
Stars
Moon
Where A Man Feels At Home, Outside Of Where He’s Born, Is Where He’s Meant To Go.
Home
Men
Born
I'm Not Advocating The Strenuous Life For Everyone Or Trying To Say It's The Choice Form Of Life. Anyone Who's Had The Luck Or Misfortune To Be An Athlete Has To Keep His Body In Shape. The Body And Mind Are Closely Coordinated. Fattening Of The Body Can Lead To Fattening Of The Mind. I Would Be Tempted To Say That It Can Lead To Fattening Of The Soul, But I Don't Know Anything About The Soul.
Athlete
Choices
Soul
Madame, It Is An Old Word And Each One Takes It New And Wears It Out Himself. It Is A Word That Fills With Meaning As A Bladder With Air And The Meaning Goes Out Of It As Quickly. It May Be Punctured As A Bladder Is Punctured And Patched And Blown Up Again And If You Have Not Had It Does Not Exist For You. All People Talk Of It, But Those Who Have Had It Are Marked By It, And I Would Not Wish To Speak Of It Further Since Of All Things It Is The Most Ridiculous To Talk Of And Only Fools Go Through It Many Times.
Love
Air
People
Paris Is So Very Beautiful That It Satisfies Something In You That Is Always Hungry In America.
Beautiful
Paris
America
You Know Lots Of Criticism Is Written By Characters Who Are Very Academic And Think It Is A Sign You Are Worthless If You Make Jokes Or Kid Or Even Clown. I Wouldn't Kid Our Lord If He Was On The Cross. But I Would Attempt A Joke With Him If I Ran Into Him Chasing The Money Changers Out Of The Temple.
Character
Kids
Thinking
The Shortest Answer Is Doing The Thing.
Inspiring
Answers
Literature
The Whiskey Warmed His Tongue And The Back Of His Throat, But It Did Not Change His Ideas Any, And Suddenly, Looking At Himself In The Mirror Behind The Bar, He Knew That Drinking Was Never Going To Do Any Good To Him Now. Whatever He Had Now He Had, And It Was From Now On, And If He Drank Himself Unconscious When He Woke Up It Would Be There.
Drinking
Mirrors
Ideas
Why Did They Make Birds So Delicate And Fine As Those Sea Swallows When The Ocean Can Be So Cruel?
Ocean
Sea
Bird
But Did Thee Feel The Earth Move?
Moving
Tolls
Earth
What Did I Know Best That I Had Not Written About And Lost? What Did I Know About Truly And Care For The Most?
Care
Lost
Knows
There Is No Rule On How To Write. Sometimes It Comes Easily And Perfectly; Sometimes It's Like Drilling Rock And Then Blasting It Out With Charges.
Writing
Rocks
Literature
He Knew He Would Not Be Afraid. Even If He Ever Was Afraid He Knew That He Could Do It Anyway.
Ifs
Today Is Only One Day In All The Days That Will Ever Be.
One Day
Tolls
Today
Wonder What Day God Created The Egg' 'how Should We Know? We Should Not Question. Our Stay On Earth Is Not For Long. Let Us Rejoice And Believe And Give Thanks'. 'eat A Egg
Believe
Eggs
Long
Writing Is A Hard Business...but Nothing Makes You Feel Better.
Writing
Feel Better
Feels
How Did We Go Bankrupt? Two Ways. Slowly, And Then All Of A Sudden.
Two
Way
Two Ways
Some Lived In It And Never Felt It But He Knew It All Was Nada Y Pues Nada Y Nada Y Pues Nada.
Felt
Don't Do What You Sincerely Don't Want To Do. Never Confuse Movement With Action.
Movement
Want
Action
Writing Is The Clumsy Attempt To Find Symbols For Wordlessness.
Writing
Symbols
Clumsy
I Never Knew Of A Morning In Africa When I Woke That I Was Not Happy.
Morning
Safari
Not Happy
I Felt The Death Loneliness That Comes At The End Of Every Day That Is Wasted In Your Life.
Loneliness
Moveable Feast
Ends
Everything About Him Was Old Except His Eyes And They Were The Same Color As The Sea And Were Cheerful And Undefeated.
Eye
Color
Sea
I Would Walk Along The Quais When I Had Finished Work Or When I Was Trying To Think Something Out. It Was Easier To Think If I Was Walking And Doing Something Or Seeing People Doing Something That They Understood.
Journey
Thinking
Hiking
The Clouds Were Building Up Now For The Trade Wind And He Looked Ahead And Saw A Flight Of Wild Ducks Etching Themselves Against The Sky Over The Water, Then Blurring, Then Etching Again And He Knew No Man Was Ever Alone On The Sea.
Men
Clouds
Wind
I Do Not Need To Get Used To Your Silence. I Already Know It. I Quite Possibly Love All Of It.
Silence
Needs
Used
You've Such A Lovely Temperature.
Lovely
Temperature
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