“ By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better. Ernest Hemingway
“ But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start. Ernest Hemingway
“ Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung f… Ernest Hemingway
“ And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.''What did you say?''I said we could have everything.''We can have everything.''No, we can… Ernest Hemingway
“ And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slippe… Ernest Hemingway
“ And Barcelona. You should see Barcelona. How is it? It is all still comic opera. First it was the paradise of the crackpots and the romantic revolutionists. Now it is the paradise of the fake soldier.… Ernest Hemingway
“ Age is my alarm clock, the old man said. Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? Ernest Hemingway
“ If the day was bright, I would buy a liter of wine and a piece of bread and some sausage and sit in the sun and read one of the books I had bought and watch the fishing. Ernest Hemingway
“ A valuable thing too is never to let anyone know how fine you thought anyone else ever was because they know better and no one was ever that splendid. Ernest Hemingway
“ I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices of things we eat or something? Ain't that it? Making them more costly or something. Making the grits… Ernest Hemingway
“ The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain. Ernest Hemingway
“ But in the dark now and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind and the steady pull of the sail he felt that perhaps he was already dead. He put his two hands together and felt the palms. They… Ernest Hemingway
“ Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course I love you. I love you all t… Ernest Hemingway
“ I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word. Ernest Hemingway
“ Named Harris," Bill said. "Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too.""Fortunate fellow," Mike said. "What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back. Ernest Hemingway
“ At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were… Ernest Hemingway
“ If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about. Ernest Hemingway
“ You know I'm no squealer, Harry.''You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.''I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.''The… Ernest Hemingway
