Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.
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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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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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Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
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My big fish must be somewhere.
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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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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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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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Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.
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Work could cure almost anything
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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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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.
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Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
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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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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.