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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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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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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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."
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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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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
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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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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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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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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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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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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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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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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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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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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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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
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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.