Quotes About Hemingway

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.

Vice is a wonderful thing, Catherine said. The people who go in for it seem to have good taste about it.

Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. No, Nick said.

Poor goddamned rummies,' Marie said. 'I pity a rummy.' 'He's a lucky rummy.' 'There ain't any lucky rummies,' Marie said. 'You know that, Harry.' 'No,' I said. 'I guess there aren't.

I wondered where Cohn got that incapacity to enjoy Paris. Possibly from Mencken. Mencken hates Paris, I believe. So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken.

In America, they make such things of wire and of sponge-rubber, such as you use in the sets of tanks. You never know there, whether there is any truth in the matter, unless you are a bad boy as I am.

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

I am asking Scribners to insert as a subtitle in everything after the eighth printing THE SUN ALSO RISES (LIKE YOUR COCK IF YOU HAVE ONE) A greater Gatsby (Written with the friendship of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Prophet of THE JAZZ AGE)

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

I understand. That's the trouble. I understand. I'll understand all the time. All day and all night. Especially all night. I'll understand. You don't have to worry about that.

Only suckers worry. But he can knock the worry if he takes a Scotch and soda. The hell with what the doctor says. So he rings for one and the steward comes sleepily, and as he drinks it, the speculator is not a sucker now; except for death.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

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.

Dentuso, he thought. Bad luck to your mother.

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

Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

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.

This is all very dull, I would not state it except that you ask for it.

Show irony and pity.

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.

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

The Spanish say, "El sol es el mejor torero." The longest books on Spain are usually written by Germans who make one intensive visit and then never return. I know no modern sculpture, except Brancusi's, that is in any way the equal of the sculpture of modern bullfighting. "mas cornadas dan las mujeres." Manzanilla also means camomile, but if you remember to ask for a chato of manzanilla there is no danger that you will be served camomile tea.

Antonio said, "Do you have any other orders?" "Just keep your bowels open and try to lead clean lives. We'll be back in a little while. Come on, you two gentlemen bastards. Let's go.

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