Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
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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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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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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
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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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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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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
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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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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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Never mistake motion for action.
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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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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
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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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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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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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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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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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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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Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
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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.