“ What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. Ernest Hemingway
“ So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway
“ I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. Ernest Hemingway
“ Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary. Ernest Hemingway
“ Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again. Ernest Hemingway
“ The fish is my friend too...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 t… Ernest Hemingway
“ The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. Ernest Hemingway
“ Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up… Ernest Hemingway
“ Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God. Ernest Hemingway
“ In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling w… Ernest Hemingway
“ When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a… Ernest Hemingway
“ He had never quarreled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved he had quarreled so much they had finally, always, with the corrosion of the quarreling, killed what they had together.… Ernest Hemingway
“ Do you want to keep your knee, young man?''No', I said.'What?''I want it cut off,' I said, 'so I can wear a hook on it. Ernest Hemingway
