Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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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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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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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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Not the why but the what.
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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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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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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
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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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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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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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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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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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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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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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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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Man is not made for defeat.
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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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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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A bottle of wine was good company.