Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.
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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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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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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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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
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I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
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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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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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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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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.
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
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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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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.