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
Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after… — 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
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be… — 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
