Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

let us sleep, he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him.

that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

It's a bore, he said out loud. What is, my dear? Anything you do too bloody long.

I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Half fish, he said. Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But we have killed many sharks, you and I, and ruined many others. How many did you ever kill, old fish? You do not have that spear on your head for nothing.

I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to; we never did such things.

its pretty to think so

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who will fight it.

Fuck literature.

They are strong," David said. "But there's a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind.

In a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.