Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.
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However you make your living is where your talent lies.
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In those days, there was no money to buy books.
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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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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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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
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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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I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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You've such a lovely temperature.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
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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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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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Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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I felt very lonely when they were all there.
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Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well