Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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It's a town you come to for a short time.
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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.
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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
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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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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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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 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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There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.
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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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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
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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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A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.