Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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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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It's a town you come to for a short time.
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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
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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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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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Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.
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As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
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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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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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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.
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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
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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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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.
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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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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.