Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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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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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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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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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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You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.
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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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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
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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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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'
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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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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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You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.