“It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. — 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 am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in… — 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
