Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
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Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
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All thinking men are atheists.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
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I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.
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There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.
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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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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.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
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War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.
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Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
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I felt very lonely when they were all there.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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Easy writing makes hard reading.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.