I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There is a lot of time between now and the fall term. There is a lot of time between now and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“IT WAS NOW LUNCH TIME AND THEY WERE all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I loved the country so that I was happy as you are after you have been with a woman that you really… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment when I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“You find everything on earth at Harry's." "Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness." "I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
