Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
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I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
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Never confuse motions with action.
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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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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.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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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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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
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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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I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.
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Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
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War is not won by victory.
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You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.