Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
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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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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.
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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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Live it up so you can write it down.
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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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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.
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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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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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I am always in love.
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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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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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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?