Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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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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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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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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Never confuse movement with action.
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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
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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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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
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No one you love is ever truly lost.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.