“ Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy’s. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a raci… Ernest Hemingway
“ There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. Ernest Hemingway
“ I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. Ernest Hemingway
“ The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He was probably a coward,' she said. He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The… Ernest Hemingway
“ The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of early morning, sweeping out and mopping, and luck were all… Ernest Hemingway
“ The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. Ernest Hemingway
“ In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die. Ernest Hemingway
“ Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then, one day, for no reason, he sees you as ugly as… Ernest Hemingway
“ You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might… Ernest Hemingway
“ Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. Ernest Hemingway
“ It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't. Ernest Hemingway
“ The cynical ones are the best companions. But the best of all are the cynical ones when they are still devout; or after; when having been devout, then cynical, they become devout again by cynicism. Ernest Hemingway
“ Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. Ernest Hemingway
