Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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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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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.
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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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His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.
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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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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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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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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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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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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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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
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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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My big fish must be somewhere.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.