“ Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring…But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, n… Ernest Hemingway
“ It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance. Ernest Hemingway
“ I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. Ernest Hemingway
“ I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools. Ernest Hemingway
“ For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.Now he would never w… 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? Ernest Hemingway
“ Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols. Ernest Hemingway
“ All the passengers were crowded over on the landside of the ship, watching through the narrow windows the careened hulk of a freighter, visibly damaged by shellfire, which had driven ashore to beach h… Ernest Hemingway
“ When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you w… Ernest Hemingway
“ Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged. Ernest Hemingway
