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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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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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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How little we know of what there is to know.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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However you make your living is where your talent lies.
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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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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.
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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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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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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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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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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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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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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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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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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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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.