Quotes from Earnest Hemingway

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

write hard & clear about what hurts.

Cojones: testicles; a valorous bull fighter is said to be plentifully equipped with these. In a cowardly bullfighter they are said to be absent.

Italy is a country every man should love once.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Bad luck to your mother.

I hate him, too, she shivered. I hate his damned suffering.

People may refer the sea as both feminine and masculine but I like to refer it as feminine because the moon effects the sea in the same way it does a women

when you go over it, cut out everything you can. The main thing is to know what to leave out. The way you tell whether you're going good is by what you can throw away.

If people bring so much courage to this world that world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

He knew he would need his hands.

First you burrow. Then you beg.

life is earnest, art is gay

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.