Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
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I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.
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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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A big lie is more plausible than truth.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.