Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.
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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
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The only decent bone in her body was mine.
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.
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We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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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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The best writing is certainly when you are in love
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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
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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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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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Hunger is good discipline.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
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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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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
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For what are we born if not to aid one another?