Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.
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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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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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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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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
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Work could cure almost anything
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I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.
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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
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I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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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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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
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That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.