Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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My big fish must be somewhere.
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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
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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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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
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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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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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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
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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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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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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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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
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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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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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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.