Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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No one ever stopped when they were winning.
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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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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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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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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
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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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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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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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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
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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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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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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will 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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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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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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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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You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
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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.