Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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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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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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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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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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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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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.
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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
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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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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
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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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In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
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But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.
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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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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.