Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
Never mistake motion for action.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
