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Him Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his…
- You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make…
- To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It…
- How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is…
- The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in…
- They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
- The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept…
- The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
- Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed…
- Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had…
- Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.
- But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He…
- He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever…
- The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do…
- For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever…
- Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by…
- He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
- That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now…
- Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
- Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
- When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a…
- You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you…
- They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why…
- The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden