“ I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and thi… Ernest Hemingway
“ It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945 Ernest Hemingway
“ It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought. Ernest Hemingway
“ It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. There is nothing worse than war. Defeat is worse. I do not believe it, Passini said still respectfully. What is defeat? You go home. Ernest Hemingway
“ In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had… Ernest Hemingway
“ If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span. Ernest Hemingway
“ If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But th… Ernest Hemingway
“ I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.'It's a bore,' he said out loud.'What is, my dear?''Anything you do too bloody long. Ernest Hemingway
“ I would like to bear thy son and hy daughter, she told hime. And how can the world be made better if there are no children of us who fight against the fascists? Ernest Hemingway
“ I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish, he said. Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish. Ernest Hemingway
“ I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, Ernest Hemingway
“ I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out… Ernest Hemingway
“ I heard them laugh. I turned off the light and tried to go to sleep. It was not necessary to read any more. I could shut my eyes without getting the wheeling sensation. But i could not sleep. There is… Ernest Hemingway
“ I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed… Ernest Hemingway
“ I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there w… Ernest Hemingway
“ I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, a… Ernest Hemingway
“ I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry. Ernest Hemingway
“ How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound pr… Ernest Hemingway
“ His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we… Ernest Hemingway
