Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

These people made it a comfortable café since they were all interested in each other and in their drinks or coffees, or infusions, and in the papers and periodicals which were fastened to rods, and no one was on exhibition.

She had the morals of a vacuum cleaner and the soul of a pari-mutuel machine, a good figure, and that lovely vicious face, and she only stayed with Roger long enough to get ready for her first good step upwards in life.

De todas las formas en que uno puede ser herido, la mía era la más ridícula.

I don't care if he kills me, the big son of a bitch,' David said. 'Oh hell. I don't hate him. I love him.

He is performing a work of art and he is playing with death, bringing it closer, closer, closer, to himself, a death that you know is in the horns because you have the canvas-covered bodies of the horses on the sand to prove it. He gives the feeling of his immortality, and, as you watch it, it becomes yours. Then when it belongs to both of you, he proves it with the sword.

As I lay on the bed I could see the big mirror on the other side of the room but could not see what it reflected.

He missed a lot in his life. -That no one ever knows. Everything in life has it's compensation.

I know how you feel, Dave, Andrew said when he brought the Coke. Nobody knows how I feel, David said.

The dancers were in a crowd, so you did not see the intricate play of the feet. All you saw was the heads and shoulders going up and down, up and down.

Why I felt that impulse to devil him I do not know. Of course I do know. I was blind, unforgivingly jealous of what had happened to him. The fact that I took it as a matter of course did not alter that any. I certainly did hate him. I do not think I ever really hated him until he had that little spell of superiority at lunch--that and when he went through all that barbering. So I put the telegram in my pocket. The telegram came to me, anyway.

They say the seeds of what we will do are all in us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Kill him, yes. Swear him, yes. But don't wound him.

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had.

But in weakness a man can be a great danger.

Now I don't give a shit I lost him, David said. I don't care about the records. I just thought I did. I'm glad that he's all right and that I'm all right. We aren't enemies. I'm glad you told us, Thomas Hudson said. Thank you very much, Mr. Davis for what you said when I first lost him, David said with his eyes still shut. Thomas Hudson never knew what it was that Roger had said to him.

Then several women had put themselves out to be nice to him, and his horizons had all shifted.

You father was a great man. -But I don't know. It looks to me like, when they turn some man, than there's nothing left of him.

We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Og á eftir skulum við lesa og síðan fara í rúmið og vera saman. Og aldrei skulum við elska neinn nema hvort annað. Nei. Aldrei.

The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are Lesbians under their skin.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Every one needs to talk to some one," the woman said. "Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone." "We are not alone. We are all together.