Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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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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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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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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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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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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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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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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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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I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
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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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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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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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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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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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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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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.