Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
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My big fish must be somewhere.
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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.
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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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Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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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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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.
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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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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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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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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
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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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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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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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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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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 wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.