Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

War is not won by victory.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

Never mistake motion for action.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.