“ Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions. Ernest Hemingway
“ The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep Ernest Hemingway
“ Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa. Ernest Hemingway
“ Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life. Ernest Hemingway
“ No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. Ernest Hemingway
“ I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee. Ernest Hemingway
“ I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter s… Ernest Hemingway
“ He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride. Ernest Hemingway
“ He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the bea… Ernest Hemingway
“ He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a w… Ernest Hemingway
“ Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to li… Ernest Hemingway
“ Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? Yes, every once in a wh… Ernest Hemingway
“ The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. Ernest Hemingway
“ Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. Ernest Hemingway
