“You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.” — 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
“The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The Purdey was not a Purdey but a straight-stocked long-barreled Scott live-pigeon full choke in both barrels thai I had bought from… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them;… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it. ― Ernest Hemingway,… — 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
“The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.'… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The rifle and the pistol are still the equalizer when one man is more of a man than another, and if…he is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“If the bulls were allowed to increase their knowledge as the bullfighter does, and if those bulls which are not killed in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fish feed… — 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
