Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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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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A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
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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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Never confuse motions with action.
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Live it up so you can write it down.
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where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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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 it again.
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.