Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.
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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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Not the why but the what.
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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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I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.
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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
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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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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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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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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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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.