“ They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
“ To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appoin… Ernest Hemingway
“ To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and… Ernest Hemingway
“ The only writing that was any good was what you made up, what you imagined. That made everything come true. Everything good he had ever written he'd made up. None of it had ever happened. Other things… Ernest Hemingway
“ THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOIt is necessary to be very strong against something Ernest Hemingway
“ Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War. Ernest Hemingway
“ If people bring so much courage to the world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them Ernest Hemingway
“ I thought you weren't going to ever talk about it.How can I help it?You'll lose it if you talk about it.I just talk around it. You know I feel rather damned good, Jake.You should.You know it makes one… Ernest Hemingway
“ I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to… Ernest Hemingway
“ I knelt and started to pray and prayed for everybody I thought of, Brett and Mike and Bill and Robert Cohn and myself, and all the bull-fighters, separately for the ones I liked, and lumping all the r… Ernest Hemingway
“ Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the… Ernest Hemingway
“ During our last year in the mountains new people came deep into our lives and nothing was ever the same again. The winter of the avalanches was like a happy and innocent winter in childhood compared t… Ernest Hemingway
“ Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. Ernest Hemingway
“ A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. Ernest Hemingway
