Quotes from Hemingway

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

My style might seem awkward, but I'm only trying to write down the things in the scene that I think the reader should know.

Get black on white.

I wanted to try this new drink. That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

He had not known just how greatly he had been divided and separated because once he started to work he wrote from an inner core which could not be split nor even marked nor scratched. He knew about this and it was his strength since all the rest of him could be riven.

El vino es la cosa más civilizada del mundo.