“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — 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 until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
