Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO I never carry a gun. With my luck, if i carried a gun I would be hanged ten times a year.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy, he said aloud.

The ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose

So if your life trades its seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it. Now, ahora, maintenant, heute. Now

But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO Do you have bad luck with all games? With everything and with women. He smiled again, showng his bad teeth. Truly? -Truly And what is there to do? -Continue, slowly, and wait for luck to change.

And this,' he was saying aloud. 'And this. And this.

Que va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly

Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.

I am like a blind pig when I work.

With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. [...] Part of you died each year when leaves fell from the tress and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.

She said nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I loved someone it would take it all away.

It was an hour before the first shark hit him.

But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.

But, then, nothing is easy.

Everybody had his arms on everybody else's shoulders, and they were all singing. Mike was sitting at the table with several men in their shirt-sleeves, eating from a bowl of tuna fish, chopped onions and vinegar. They were all drinking wine and mopping up the oil and vinegar with pieces of bread. "Hello, Jake. Hello!" Mike called. "Come here. I want you to meet my friends. We are all having an hors d'œuvre.

You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more? 'You think too much, old man' he said aloud.

But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.

I'd be glad to shoot you.' 'Would you?' 'No. There's a law against it.

All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk.

We are governed by what you find in the bottom of dead beer glasses that whores have dunked their cigarettes in. The place has not even been swept out yet and they have an amateur pianist beating on the box