Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
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Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
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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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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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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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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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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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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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No one ever stopped when they were winning.
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There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.
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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.