Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
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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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You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
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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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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.
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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
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I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
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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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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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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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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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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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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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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.