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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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.
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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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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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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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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
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Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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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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'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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Never mistake motion for action.
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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There is no rule on how to write.
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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.