All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never… — 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
“Religion is the opium of the people. He believed that, that dyspeptic little joint-keeper. Yes, and music is the opium of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both… — 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