--- title: "11 Long time Quotes By Ernest Hemingway" description: "11 Long time quotes by Ernest Hemingway. Plus more from Ernest Hemingway and more Long time sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/ernest-hemingway-83_happy_and-if-there-is-not-any-such-thing-as-a_95833.jpg" --- > [And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/and-if-there-is-not-any-such-thing-as-a-long-time-nor-the-rest-of/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/ernest-hemingway-83_happy_and-if-there-is-not-any-such-thing-as-a_95833.jpg) > [“Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/are-you-a-communist-no-i-am-an-anti-fascist-for-a-long-time-since-i/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5b/ernest-hemingway-83_civil-war_are-you-a-communist-no-i-am-an-anti-fasc_2367102.jpg) > [“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/you-could-live-in-the-other-wonderful-world-the-russian-writers-were/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/ernest-hemingway-83_long-time_you-could-live-in-the-other-wonderful-wo_3234564.jpg) > [In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/in-the-morning-there-was-a-big-wind-blowing-and-the-waves-were/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/568/ernest-hemingway-83_awake_in-the-morning-there-was-a-big-wind-blow_3230832.jpg) > [For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/for-a-long-time-now-i-have-tried-simply-to-write-the-best-i-can/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1f/ernest-hemingway-83_good-luck_for-a-long-time-now-i-have-tried-simply_2487054.jpg) > [“To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/to-go-to-bed-at-night-in-madrid-marks-you-as-a-little-queer-for-a/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02a/ernest-hemingway-83_long-time_to-go-to-bed-at-night-in-madrid-marks-yo_3054654.jpg) > [“So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/so-if-your-life-trades-seventy-years-for-seventy-hours-i-have-that/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70d/ernest-hemingway-83_life_so-if-your-life-trades-seventy-years-for_594288.jpg) > [“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/i-did-not-say-anything-i-was-always-embarrassed-by-the-words-sacred/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/ernest-hemingway-83_business_i-did-not-say-anything-i-was-always-emba_945792.jpg) > [How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/how-little-we-know-of-what-there-is-to-know-i-wish-that-i-were-going/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/941/ernest-hemingway-83_certain_how-little-we-know-of-what-there-is-to-k_1104604.jpg) > [“If a man liked his friends' painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/if-a-man-liked-his-friends-painting-or-writing-i-thought-it-was/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b06/ernest-hemingway-83_family_if-a-man-liked-his-friends-painting-or-w_454307.jpg) > [“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/when-writing-a-novel-a-writer-should-create-living-people-people-not/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/ernest-hemingway-83_books_when-writing-a-novel-a-writer-should-cre_514475.jpg) ## Other authors on Long time ## More by Ernest Hemingway > [Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/wine-is-one-of-the-most-civilized-things-in-the-world-and-one-of-the/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/there-was-no-wind-and-outside-now-of-the-warm-air-of-the-cave-heavy/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/it-was-not-brilliant-bull-fighting-it-was-only-perfect-bull-fighting/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/one-cat-just-leads-to-another-the-place-is-so-damned-big-it-doesn-t/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/creation-s-probably-overrated-after-all-god-made-the-world-in-only/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/viva-my-husband-who-was-mayor-of-this-town/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“The earth gets tired of being exploited.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/the-earth-gets-tired-of-being-exploited/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/what-is-moral-is-what-you-feel-good-after-and-what-is-immoral-is-what/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/we-drove-out-along-the-coast-road-there-was-the-green-of-the/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/as-a-nobel-prize-winner-i-cannot-but-regret-that-the-award-was-never/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/oh-darling-i-ve-been-so-miserable/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/i-read-my-own-books-sometimes-to-cheer-me-when-it-is-hard-to-write/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/you-find-everything-on-earth-at-harry-s-yes-my-colonel-except/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/no-it-s-bad-for-me-cole-porter-wrote-the-words-and-the-music-this/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/everything-kills-everything-else-in-some-way-fishing-kills-me-exactly/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/ernest-hemingway/#itemlist", "name": "11 Long time Quotes By Ernest Hemingway", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ernest Hemingway" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/and-if-there-is-not-any-such-thing-as-a-long-time-nor-the-rest-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/ernest-hemingway-83_happy_and-if-there-is-not-any-such-thing-as-a_95833.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/ernest-hemingway-83_happy_and-if-there-is-not-any-such-thing-as-a_95833.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/ernest-hemingway-83_happy_and-if-there-is-not-any-such-thing-as-a_95833.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is…” — Ernest Hemingway", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Are you a communist?\" \"No I am an anti-fascist\" \"For a long time?\" \"Since I have understood fascism.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ernest Hemingway" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/are-you-a-communist-no-i-am-an-anti-fascist-for-a-long-time-since-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5b/ernest-hemingway-83_civil-war_are-you-a-communist-no-i-am-an-anti-fasc_2367102.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5b/ernest-hemingway-83_civil-war_are-you-a-communist-no-i-am-an-anti-fasc_2367102.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5b/ernest-hemingway-83_civil-war_are-you-a-communist-no-i-am-an-anti-fasc_2367102.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Are you a communist?\" \"No I am an anti-fascist\" \"For a long time?\" \"Since I have understood fascism.” — Ernest Hemingway", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. 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A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is possible that his book will remain as a whole; as an entity; as a novel. If the people the writer is making talk of old masters; of music; of modern painting; of letters; or of science then they should talk of those subjects in the novel. If they do not talk of these subjects and the writer makes them talk of them he is a faker, and if he talks about them himself to show how much he knows then he is showing off. No matter how good a phrase or a simile he may have if he puts it in where it is not absolutely necessary and irreplaceable he is spoiling his work for egotism. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially constructed characters which are more remunerative when issued as people in a novel is good economics, perhaps, but does not make literature. People in a novel, not skillfully constructed characters, must be projected from the writer’s assimilated experience, from his knowledge, from his head, from his heart and from all there is of him. If he ever has luck as well as seriousness and gets them out entire they will have more than one dimension and they will last a long time. A good writer should know as near everything as possible. Naturally he will not. A great enough writer seems to be born with knowledge. But he really is not; he has only been born with the ability to learn in a quicker ratio to the passage of time than other men and without conscious application, and with an intelligence to accept or reject what is already presented as knowledge. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. 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