Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Well, I knew I would not be killed. Not in this war. It did not have anything to do with me. It seemed no more dangerous to me myself than war in the movies. I wished to God it was over though. Maybe it would finish this summer.

Black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes were instituted by the devil to force people to live in cities where he could get at them better. If it weren't for them everybody would live in the bush and he would be out of work. It was a rather successful invention.

The odor of citronella is not offensive to people. It smells like gun oil. But the bugs do hate it.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

Nadie debiera estar solo en su vejez. Pero es inevitable.

It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I'd had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

There is no FRIEND as LOYAL as a BOOK!

But the world they were in was not the world he was in.

I wish I could see the glow from the lights.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

No me gustan los perros por ser perros, los caballos por ser caballos ni los gatos por ser gatos.

I lay awake thinking and my mind jumping around. Then I couldn't keep away from it, and I started to think about Brett and my mind stopped jumping around and started to go in sort of smooth waves. Then all of a sudden I started to cry. (27)

But there was a thing here that I never saw. I don't think you've ever seen it either. There were Americans came here and they put whiskey in the beer. No, I said. Oui. My God, yes, that's true. Et aussi une femme qui a vomis sur la table! Comment? C'est vrai. Elle a vomis sur la table. Et après elle a vomis dans ses shoes. And afterward they come back and say they want to come again and have another party the next Saturday, and I say no, my God, no! When they came I locked the door.

And if I do it you'll be happy and things will be like they were and you'll love me? I love you now. You know I love you.

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

My mojito in the Bodeguita del Medio and my daiquiri in the Floridita.

His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us. Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. I must surely remember to eat the tuna after it gets light.

Red swine. Mother rapers. Eaters of the milk of thy fathers.

When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

Todo hombre que empieza a vivir de una manera seria por dentro, empieza también a llevar una vida más sencilla por fuera

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me.

True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.