“ He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean. He was sorry for the birds, especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and looking and almost nev… Ernest Hemingway
“ He was fairly happy, except that, like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America, and he had discovered writing. Ernest Hemingway
“ He thought of the Riviera, as it was then before it had all been built up, with the lovely stretches of blue sea and the sand beaches and the stretches of pine woods and the mountains of the Esterel g… Ernest Hemingway
“ He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled... Ernest Hemingway
“ He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky. Ernest Hemingway
“ He looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now. But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm. The clouds were buildin… Ernest Hemingway
“ He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement. Ernest Hemingway
“ He knew too what it was to live through a hurricane with the other people of the island and the bond that the hurricane made between all people who had been through it. He also knew that hurricanes co… Ernest Hemingway
“ He grinned with his hat on the back of his head. He looked more like a Broadway character of the Nineties than the lovely painter that he was, and afterwards, when he had hanged himself, I liked to re… Ernest Hemingway
“ He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull. Ernest Hemingway
“ Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that. Ernest Hemingway
“ Every one needs to talk to some one, the woman said. Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one cou… Ernest Hemingway
“ Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. Ernest Hemingway
“ During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing. He could tell the difference between the blowing noise the male made and the sighing blow of the female.… Ernest Hemingway
“ Coward, Pablo said bitterly. You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish. Neither is i… Ernest Hemingway
“ Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself. Ernest Hemingway
“ But you have no house and no courtyard to your no-house, he thought. You have no family but a brother who goes to battle tomorrow and you own nothing but the wind and the sun and an empty belly. The w… Ernest Hemingway
“ But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter… Ernest Hemingway
