Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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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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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
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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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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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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.
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The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.
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Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
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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 love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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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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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
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It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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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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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .