Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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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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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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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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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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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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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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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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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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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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Not the why but the what.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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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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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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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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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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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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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.