Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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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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For what are we born if not to aid one another?
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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
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It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).
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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.