Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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 things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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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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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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Not the why but the what.
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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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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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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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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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No one ever stopped when they were winning.
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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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Man is not made for defeat.
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A bottle of wine was good company.
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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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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 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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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
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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.