Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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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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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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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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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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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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A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
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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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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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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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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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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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What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
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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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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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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.