Quotes About Ernest Hemingway

The cynical ones are the best companions. But the best of all are the cynical ones when they are still devout; or after; when having been devout, then cynical, they become devout again by cynicism.

This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

The cat is the best anarchist.

I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it.

I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.

The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end.

If I find any Krauts, can I kill them?" "The Colonel said all but one," Thomas Hudson said. "Try to save a smart one." "I'll give them all IQ tests before I open up." "Give yourself one." "Mine's goddam low or I wouldn't be here," Willie said, and he set out. He walked contemptuously and he watched the beach and the country ahead as carefully as a man could watch.

He whispered this last so low that it was inaudible to anyone that did not love you.

In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers. Now it was over he was lonely, detached and unelated and he hated every one he saw.

am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm.

How can there be solidarity of workers with fools like you?

He had a face that reminded me of a frog, not a bullfrog but just any frog, and Paris was too big a puddle for him.

The Purdey was not a Purdey but a straight-stocked long-barreled Scott live-pigeon full choke in both barrels thai I had bought from a lot of shotguns a dealer had brought down fron Udine to the Kechlers' villa in Codroipo.

When I come back you can tell me about the baseball." "The Yankees cannot lose." "But I fear the Indians of Cleveland." "Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

If a good woman isn't a little bit Bitchy sometimes, it is just as though Dijon mustard didn't have any taste.

I love your beard," Catherine said. "It's a great success. It looks so stiff and fierce and it's very soft and a great pleasure.

We had a Corsican wine that had great authority and a low price. It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message. A Moveable Feast

If the boy was here he would wet the coils of line, he thought. Yes. If the boy were here. If the boy were here.

Just take that beautiful body down below, will you?" Wilson said. "I'm sure you'll get the lady to sleep." "You swine," the man said. "You rotten swine." "Can't you think up any other names?" Frank said. "Swine's getting awfully dull. You better go down below before you catch cold. If I had a wonderful chest like that I wouldn't risk it out here on a windy night like this.

more than shame he felt cold, hollow fear in him. The fear was still there like a cold slimy hollow in all the emptiness where once his confidence had been and it made him feel sick. It was still there with him now. It

What simplicity," the scarred-faced brother, who was called Andrés, said. "And how do you explode them?

I have never seen a man who lost the blood from his face so fast, and I wondered where it went