Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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All thinking men are atheists.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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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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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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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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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
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I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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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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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.