Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
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You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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All bad writers are in love with the epic.
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As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.
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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
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I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.
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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.