Quotes from Hemingway Ernest

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Several people asked questions to hear themselves talk.

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

In the end everyone, or not quite everyone, made friends again in order not to be stuffy or righteous. I did too. But I could never make friends again truly, neither in my heart nor in my head. When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst. But it was more complicated than that.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to write paragraphs that would be the distillation of what made a novel. It was necessary to write longer stories now as you would train for a longer race.

My favorite quotes; "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector." - Ernst Hemingway. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." Ernest Hemingway

Don't read too fast," she said.

When you are twenty-five and are a natural heavyweight, missing a meal makes you very hungry. But it also sharpens all of your perceptions, and I found that many of the people I wrote about had very strong appetites and a great taste and desire for food, and most of them were looking forward to having a drink.

At two meetings the stimulated horses that I was backing outraced the unstimulated or insufficiently stimulated beasts except for one race in which our fancy had been overstimulated to such a point that before the start he threw his jockey and breaking away completed a full circuit of the steeplechase course jumping beautifully by himself the way one can sometimes jump in dreams.

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it.

Norocul e un lucru care apare în mai multe forme. Cone poate s? îl recunoasc?? TotuÈ™i aÈ™ lua un pic, în orice form? ar fi, È™i aÈ™ pl?ti cât mi s-ar cere. AÈ™ vrea s? v?d luminile lic?rind.

Los hombres no están hechos para la derrota. Se les puede destruir, pero no derrotar.

I do not like anis, Pablo said. The acrid smell had carried across the table and he had picked out the one familiar component. Good, said Robert Jordan. Because there is very little left. What drink is that? the gypsy asked. A medicine, Robert Jordan said. Do you want to taste it? What is it for? For everything, Robert Jordan said. It cures everything. If you have anything wrong this will cure it.

If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my own eyes

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. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

Ahora no es momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa en lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay

You rotten son of a bitch what are you doing in here off your filthy beat?" "Don't be insulting just because you want to act like an eccentric." "Take your dirty camping mouth out of here.

The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most at this time. There is, of course, the problem of sustenance.

Fornos is a café frequented only by people connected with the bullfights and by whores. There is smoke, hurrying of waiters, noise of glasses and you have the noisy privacy of a big café.

Everything about him was beautiful, with the sole exception of his jaws

No me importaba el sentido de la vida. Lo único que quería era saber cómo vivir. Tal vez si uno descubría cómo vivir podría deducir de ahí el sentido de la vida

It is a strange feeling to have an animal come toward you consciously seeking to kill you, his eyes open looking at you, and see the oncoming of the lowered horn that he intends to kill you with. It gives enough of a sensation so that there are always men willing to go into the capeas for the pride of having experienced it and the pleasure of having tried some bullfighting manœuvre with a real bull although the actual pleasure at the time may not be great.

La gente que interfería en tu vida siempre lo hacía por tu bien, y finalmente me di cuenta de que lo que querían era que te sometieras por completo, que no te diferenciaras del modelo superficial comúnmente aceptado y que después te difuminaras como lo haría un viajante en un convención, del modo más aburrido y estúpido que se puede imaginar.