Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
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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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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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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.
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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
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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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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.