Quotes About Ernest Hemingway

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai "Ngàje Ngài," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Love, you poison my typewriter. How can I write with every key screaming? Since you've left, I've had hangovers they could name battleships after.

IT WAS NOW LUNCH TIME AND THEY WERE all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened.

He hated injustice as he hated cruelty and he lay in his rage that blinded his mind until gradually the anger died down and the red, black, blinding, killing anger was all gone and his mind now as quiet, empty-calm and sharp, cold-seeing as a man is after he has had sexual intercourse with a woman that he does not love.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends." Let

Stupid people will think it is strange. But we must be proud. I love to be proud. So do I, he said. We'll start being proud now.

Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. - about Wyndham Lewis

But she has a tongue that scalds and that bites like a bull whip. With this tongue she takes the hide from any one. She is of an unbelievable barbarousness.

Brett was in bed. She had just been brushing her hair and held the brush in her hand. The room was in that disorder produced only by those who have always had servants.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

your own death seemed of complete unimportance; only a thing to be avoided because it would interfere with the performance of your duty.

For Whom the Bell Tolls was an immediate success. Hemingway wrote to his first wife, Hadley, that it was "selling like frozen daiquiris in hell."24 It has had tremendous impact and has been

You know when I am in the U.S.S.R. people write to me in Pravda when there is an injustice in a town in Azerbaijan. They say Karkov will help us.

I misjudged you, Harvey said. You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All

Make me a Tom Collins with coconut water and bitters to take. Put it in one of the cork holders.

Pablo le enseñó la llave y don Pepe se quedó mirándola

Our pleasures, which were those of being in love, were as simple and still as mysterious and complicated as a simple mathematical formula that can mean happiness of can mean the end of the world.

Our pleasures, which were those of being in love, were as simple and still as mysterious and complicated as a simple mathematical formula that can mean all happiness or can mean the end of the world.

of Esquire contained an article entitled "On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," written by the magazine's

cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these moral standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very moral to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but very fine.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense, but just enough to be careless. For God's sake, I said, yes, don't you? Oh, how charmingly you get angry, he said. I wish I had that faculty.

You ought to write a book on wines, count, I said. Mr. Barnes, answered the count, All I want out of wine is to enjoy them.