Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

One cat just leads to another.

Then we ate even smaller eels alone cooked in oil and as tiny as bean sprouts and curled in all directions and so tender they disappeared in the mouth without chewing.

The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned, into the fish's side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man's chest. He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it.

Un giorno chiesi alla padrona di un'altra bancarella, che era mia amica, se i proprietari vendessero mai i libri. -No- disse- E' tutta roba gettata via. Ecco perché si sa che non valgono niente. Gli amici se li scambiano per leggerli sulle navi. -Senza dubbio-disse-devono lasciarne parecchi sulle navi. -Sì-dissi-la compagnia di navigazione li conserva e li fa rilegare ed è così che si formano le biblioteche delle navi.

Who knows? Since we do not have God here any more, neither His Son nor the Holy Ghost, who forgives? I do not know.

Le monde nous brise tous, beaucoup en ressortent plus forts à l'endroit des fractures.

In Ernest hemingway novel The sun also rises. there is a riddle.THE CORP OF A LEOPARD was found on a moutain sixteen thousand feet above sea level-What was it doing there? fiction

This government has had much money. Much gold. They will give nothing to their friends. You are a friend. All right. You will do it for nothing and should not be rewarded. But to people representing an important firm or a country which is not friendly but must be influenced—to such people they give much. It is very interesting when you follow it closely.

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

Remember the woods were God's first temples.

am a journalist. But like all journalists I wish to write literature

So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better love her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and in continuity

Just now, I am very busy on a study of Calvo Sotelo. He was a very good fascist; a true Spanish fascist. Franco and these other people are not. I have been studying all of Sotelo's writing and speeches. He was very intelligent and it was very intelligent that he was killed.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love." "Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again. "I don't mean fun that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling." "No," she said. "I think it's hell on earth." "It's good to see each other." "No. I don't think it is." "Don't you want to?" "I have to.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.

and I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

I have trust. I have complete trust. -You have youth, trust and a job. You have it all.

Do people catch a cunning dear without the dogs?

Al acercarse a los cuarenta años, Ernest Hemingway se había transformado en una peculiar figura

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and able.

like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America

Cómo te arruinaste? —preguntó Bill. —De dos formas: primero poco a poco, y luego de repente.