Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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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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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
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Not the why but the what.
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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
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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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A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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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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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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No one ever stopped when they were winning.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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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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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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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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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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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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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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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.