Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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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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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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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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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?