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There Are So Many Good Ones To Paint And If You Paint As Well As You Really Can And Keep Out Of All Other Things And Do That, It Is The True Thing.
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There Are So Many

Ernest Hemingway
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There Are So Many Good Ones To Paint And If You Paint As Well As You Really Can And Keep Out Of All Other Things And Do That, It Is The True Thing.

Understanding the Quote: "there are so many good ones to paint and if you paint..."

This quote by Ernest Hemingway reflects deeply on the theme of painting. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Painting, Wells, True Things, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

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About Ernest Hemingway

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It Could Be Worse,' Passini Said Respectfully. "there Is Nothing Worse Than War." Defeat Is Worse." I Do Not Believe It," Passini Said Still Respectfully. "what Is Defeat? You Go Home.
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I Was Always A Lonely Person When I Was With Everyone.
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Lonely Person
Persons
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Political
Luck
That Is What We Are Supposed To Do When We Are At Our Best - Make It All Up - But Make It Up So Truly That Later It Will Happen That Way.
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The Way To Learn Whether A Person Is Trustworthy Is To Trust Him.
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Persons
There Were Many Words That You Could Not Stand To Hear And Finally Only The Names Of Places Had Dignity. Certain Numbers Were The Same Way And Certain Dates And These With The Names Of The Places Were All You Could Say And Have Them Mean Anything. Abstract Words Such As Glory, Honor, Courage, Or Hallow Were Obscene Beside The Concrete Names Of Villages, The Numbers Of Roads, The Names Of Rivers, The Numbers Of Regiments And The Dates.
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Names
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And The Ones Who Would Not Make War? Can They Stop It?
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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.
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He Knew He Would Not Be Afraid. Even If He Ever Was Afraid He Knew That He Could Do It Anyway.
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I Was Young And Not Gloomy And There Were Always Strange And Comic Things That Happened In The Worst Time.
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Strange
Comic
Having Books Published Is Very Destructive To Writing. It Is Even Worse Than Making Love Too Much. Because When You Make Love Too Much At Least You Get A Damned Clarte That Is Like No Other Light. A Very Clear And Hollow Light.
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The Circus Is The Only Fun You Can Buy That Is Good For You.
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I May Not Be As Stong As I Think, But I Know Many Tricks And I Have Resolution.
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The Brave Dies Perhaps Two Thousand Deaths If He's Intelligent. He Simply Doesn't Mention Them.
Intelligent
Two
Brave
Isn't It Pretty To Think So.
Thinking
She Was Looking Into My Eyes With That Way She Had Of Looking That Made You Wonder Whether She Really Saw Out Of Her Own Eyes. They Would Look On And On After Every One Else's Eyes In The World Would Have Stopped Looking. She Looked As Though There Were Nothing On Earth She Would Not Look At Like That, And Really She Was Afraid Of So Many Things.
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Looks
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Wine
Vineyards
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Littles
I Don’t. I Don’t Want Anybody Else To Touch You. I’m Silly. I Get Furious If They Touch You.
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Want
Farewell To Arms
Imagination? It Is The One Thing Beside Honesty That A Good Writer Must Have. The More He Learns From Experience The More He Can Imagine.
Honesty
Imagination
Imagine
Most People Are Heartless About Turtles Because A Turtle's Heart Will Beat For Hours After He Has Been Cut Up And Butchered. But The Old Man Thought, I Have Such A Heart Too And My Feet And Hands Are Like Theirs.
Heart
Cutting
Men
It Is A Hell Of A Thing To Be Hungry In Your Own House.
House
Hunger
Hell
Cowardice, As Distinguished From Panic, Is Almost Always Simply A Lack Of Ability To Suspend The Functioning Of The Imagination.
Courage
Imagination
Cowardice
Ronda Is The Place Where To Go, If You Are Planning To Travel To Spain For A Honeymoon Or For Being With A Girlfriend. The Whole City And Its Surroundings Are A Romantic Set. ... Nice Promenades, Good Wine, Excellent Food, Nothing To Do.
Girlfriend
Nice
Wine
So Far, About Morals, I Know Only That What Is Moral Is What You Feel Good After And What Is Immoral Is What You Feel Bad After.
Life And Death
Feel Good
Feelings
We In America Should See That No Man Is Ever Given, No Matter How Gradually Or How Noble And Excellent The Man, The Power To Put This Country Into A War Which Is Now Being Prepared And Brought Closer Each Day With All The Pre-meditation Of A Long Planned Murder. For When You Give Power To An Executive You Do Not Know Who Will Be Filling That Position When The Time Of Crisis Comes.
Country
War
Men
I Write Description In Longhand Because That's Hardest For Me And You're Closer To The Paper When You Work By Hand, But I Use The Typewriter For Dialogue Because People Speak Like A Typewriter Works.
Writing
Typewriters
Hands
After Writing A Story I Was Always Empty And Both Sad And Happy, As Though I Had Made Love.
Writing
Sad And Happy
Stories
Everybody Is Friends When Things Are Bad Enough.
Enough
He Saw The Girl Watching Him And He Smiled At Her. It Was An Old Smile That He Had Been Using For Fifty Years, Ever Since He First Smiled.
Girl
Years
Fifty
Do You Know How An Ugly Woman Feels? Do You Know What It Is To Be Ugly All Your Life And Inside To Feel That You Are Beautiful? It Is Very Rare.
Beautiful
Ugly
Feels
Never Write About A Place Until You're Away From It, Because That Gives You Perspective
Writing
Giving
Perspective
First, There Must Be Talent. . .then There Must Be Discipline. . .then There Must Be. . .and Absolute Conscience. . .to Prevent Faking.
Discipline
Firsts
Talent
Let’s Not Talk About How I Am. It’s A Subject I Know Too Much About To Want To Think About Anymore.
Thinking
Want
Too Much
The Time To Work Is Shorter All The Time And If You Waste It You ... Have Committed A Sin For Which There Is No Forgiveness.
Waste
Sin
Committed
I Used To Play Cello. My Mother Kept Me Out Of School A Whole Year To Study Music And Counterpoint. She Thought I Had Ability, But I Was Absolutely Without Talent.
Mother
School
Years
Oh, Darling, I've Been So Miserable.
Miserable
Darling
Rush, That Most Exciting Perversion Of Life, The Necessity Of Accomplishing Something In Less Time Than Should Be Truly Allowed For Its Doing.
Stupidity
Should
Accomplishing Something
Just As, With The Radio, There Are Certain Things That You Become Fond Of,and You Welcome Them And Resent The New Things
Radio
Welcome
Certain
I Always Like It At A War. There Is Always The Chance That You Will Get Up The Next Morning And Be Killed And Not Have To Write.
Morning
War
Writing
That Terrible Mood Of Depression Of Whether It's Any Good Or Not Is What Is Known As The Artist's Reward.
Depression
Depressing
Artist
I Did Not Understand Them But They Did Not Have Any Mystery, And When I Understood Them They Meant Nothing To Me. I Was Sorry About This But There Was Nothing I Could Do About It.
Sorry
Mystery
Understood
Hesitation Increases In Relation To Risk In Equal Proportion To Age.
Birthday
Risk
Age
The World Is A Fine Place And Worth The Fighting For And I Hate Very Much To Leave It.
Inspiring
Death
Hate
I'm Not Going To Get Into The Ring With Tolstoy.
Witty
Powerful
Humorous
I Am Drunk, Seest Thou? When I Am Not Drunk I Do Not Talk. You Have Never Heard Me Talk Much. But An Intelligent Man Is Sometimes Forced To Be Drunk To Spend His Time With Fools.
Intelligent
Men
Drunk
As Long As You Can Start, You Are All Right. The Juice Will Come.
Wise
Long
Juice
Bullfighting Is The Only Art In Which The Artist Is In Danger Of Death And In Which The Degree Of Brilliance In The Performance Is Left To The Fighter's Honor.
Death
Art
Honor
I Don't Like To Leave Anything,' The Man Said. 'i Don't Like To Leave Things Behind.
Men
Said
Behinds
To Stay In Places And To Leave, To Trust, To Distrust, To No Longer Believe And Believe Again, . . . To Watch The Snow Come, To Watch It Go, To Hear Rain On A Tent, To Know Where I Can Find What I Want.
Wisdom
Truth
Honesty
The Story Was Writing Itself And I Was Having A Hard Time Keeping Up With It.
Writing
Hard Times
Time Keeping
Oh, Darling, You Will Be Good To Me, Won’t You? Because We’re Going To Have A Strange Life.
Strange
Darling
Be Good
Il Faut D'abord Durer (first One Must Endure).
Endurance
Firsts
Endure
It's Harder To Write In The Third Person But The Advantage Is You Move Around Better.
Moving
Writing
Advantage
This Was A Big Storm And He Might As Well Enjoy It. It Was Ruining Everything, But You Might As Well Enjoy It
Storm
Tolls
Might
Because Fascism Is A Lie, It Is Condemned To Literary Sterility. And When It Is Past, It Will Have No History, Except The Bloody History Of Murder.
Lying
Past
Murder
Mice: What Is The Best Early Training For A Writer? Y.c.: An Unhappy Childhood.
Unhappy Childhood
Training
Mice
When I Saw My Wife Again Standing By The Tracks As The Train Came In By The Piled Logs At The Station, I Wished I Had Died Before I Had Ever Loved Anyone But Her.
Track
Wife
Saws
There's No One Thing That's True. It's All True.
Inspiring
Tolls
Literature
Some People, When They Hear An Echo, Think They Originated The Sound.
Thinking
Echoes
People
The English Talked With Inflected Phrases. One Phrase To Mean Everything.
Mean
Phrases
All I Know Is That Young Boys Sleep Late And Hard.
Sleep
Boys
Young
When I Am Working On A Book Or A Story I Write Every Morning As Soon After First Light As Possible. There Is No One To Disturb You And Is It Is Cool And You Come To Your Work And Warm As You Write. You Read What You Have Written And, As You Always Stop When You Know What Is Going To Happen Next, You Go On From There. You Write Until You Come To A Place Where You Still Have Your Juice And Know What Will Happen Next And You Stop And Try To Live Through Until The Next Day When You Hit Again.
Morning
Book
Writing
The Parody Is The Last Refuge Of The Frustrated Writer. Parodies Are What You Write When You Are Associate Editor Of The Harvard Lampoon. The Greater The Work Of Literature, The Easier The Parody. The Step Up From Writing Parodies Is Writing On The Wall Above The Urinal.
Wall
Writing
Editors
Each Day Of Not Writing, Of Comfort, Of Being That Which He Despised, Dulled His Ability And Softened His Will To Work So That, Finally, He Did No Work At All.
Writing
Comfort
Each Day
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