“ You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.""Sure," I said. "I'd believe anything. Including nightmares." "What's the matter? Feel low?""Low as hell. Ernest Hemingway
“ You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Ernest Hemingway
“ You’re beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I’d be in love with you. If I saw you for the first time everything would turn over inside of me and I’d ac… Ernest Hemingway
“ But in the Gulf you got time. And I'm figuring all the time. I've got to think right all the time. I can't make a mistake. Not a mistake. Not once. Well, I got something to think about now all right.… Ernest Hemingway
“ Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from being killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell everybody in the world that you ar… Ernest Hemingway
“ The moon was up now and the trees were dark against it, and he passed the frame houses with their narrow yards, light coming from the shuttered windows; the unpaved alleys, with their double rows of h… Ernest Hemingway
“ He did not want them themselves really. They were too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl… Ernest Hemingway
“ Let me tell you something. You won't mind, will you? Don't have scenes with your young ladies. Try not to. Because you can't have scenes without crying, and then you pity yourself so much you can't re… Ernest Hemingway
“ I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually… Ernest Hemingway
“ Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage… Ernest Hemingway
“ You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. Ernest Hemingway
“ Wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg Ernest Hemingway
“ His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred… Ernest Hemingway
“ I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference. Ernest Hemingway
