Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
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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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Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons.
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Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
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You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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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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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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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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Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.
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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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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
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Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.
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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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The best writing is certainly when you are in love