Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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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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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
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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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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
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It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
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I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
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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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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.