ERNEST HEMINGWAY QUOTES The world breaks everyone ... those that will not break it kills. It kills the v ery 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. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Farewell to Arms Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, For Whom the Bell Tolls All things truly wicked start from an innocence. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Moveable Feast Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereaft er. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, "On the Blue Water," Esquire, Apr. 1936 One cat just leads to another. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, as quoted in Louis G. Morton's E-mail Humor For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for s omething that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1954 The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the seco nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But b oth are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, "Notes on the Next War," Esquire, Sep. 1935 You know what makes a good loser? Practice. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, as quoted by his son in Papa, a Personal Memoir To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a tr out stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mist resses on nine different floors. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, July 1, 1925 A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Old Man and The Sea In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. Drinking wine wa s not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as e ating and to me as necessary.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Moveable Feast Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, attributed, The Grape Escapes Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstair s with her. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, To Have and Have Not The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to lea ve it. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, For Whom the Bell Tolls The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or know n about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so sh ort it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes ins tantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great art ist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Death in the Afternoon God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional cri tics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, letter to Sherwood Anderson, May 23, 1925 Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can sto p it. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Paris Review, spring 1958 Every day above earth is a good day. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Old Man and the Sea Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Farewell to Arms They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will di e like a dog for no good reason. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, "Notes on the Next War," Esquire, Sep. 1935 Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this some times he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Nobel Prize speech, Dec. 10, 1954 It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at nig ht it is another thing. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Sun Also Rises
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what yo u have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rat her have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something t o write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, preface, The First Forty-Nine Stories Being against evil doesn't make you good. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Islands in the Stream All our words from loose using have lost their edge. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Death in the Afternoon We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, New York Journal-American, Jul. 11, 1961 When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, True at First Light The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Farewell to Arms My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possibl e. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, letter, May 15, 1925 All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hopi ng to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, "A Letter from Cuba," Esquire, Dec. 1934 I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Paris Review, spring 1958 No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. The y grow careful. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Farewell to Arms No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long eno ugh. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, "Notes on the Next War," Esquire, Sep. 1935
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story tell er who would keep that from you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Death in the Afternoon Grace under pressure. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Apr. 20, 1926 Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day s work. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Paris Review, spring 1958
