Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
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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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You've such a lovely temperature.
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Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.
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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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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
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Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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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've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.