Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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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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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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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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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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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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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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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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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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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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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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Not the why but the what.
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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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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
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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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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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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
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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.