Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
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The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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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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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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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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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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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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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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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.