“ Take a good rest, small bird, he said. Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish. Ernest Hemingway
“ Nick drank the coffee, the coffee according to Hopkins. The coffee was bitter. Nick laughed. It made a good ending to the story. His mind was starting to work. He knew he could choke it because he was… Ernest Hemingway
“ In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone. Ernest Hemingway
“ In the snowstorm you came close to wild animals and they were not afraid. They travelled across country not knowing where they were and the deer stood sometimes in the lee of the cabin. In a snowstorm… Ernest Hemingway
“ I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away.… Ernest Hemingway
“ He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. Ernest Hemingway
“ The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean. Ernest Hemingway
“ I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it us… Ernest Hemingway
“ You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a feeling o… Ernest Hemingway
“ What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will alway… Ernest Hemingway
“ Then there was the smell of heather crushed and the roughness of the bent stalks under her head and the sun bright on her closed eyes and all his life he would remember the curve of her throat with he… Ernest Hemingway
“ The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after. Let those w… Ernest Hemingway
“ The bulls are my best friends.I translated to Brett.You kill your friends? she asked.Always, he said in English, and laughed. So they don't kill me. Ernest Hemingway
“ It was necessary that I leave Schruns and go to New York to rearrange publishers. I did my business inNew York and when I got back to Paris I should have caught the first train from the Gare de 1'Est… Ernest Hemingway
