Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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Write drunk; edit sober.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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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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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
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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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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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Never confuse movement with action.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.
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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.