Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

People fall in love, but have to climb out.

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

You never understand anybody that loves you.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.

I am always in love.

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

Let's not talk about how I am. It's a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

You lose it if you talk about it.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.