Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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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 The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most.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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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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Courage is grace under pressure.
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In those days, there was no money to buy books.
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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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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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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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The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
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You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.
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All thinking men are atheists.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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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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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
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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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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?