~ Ernest Hemingway Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake you know?

[MysteRy]

Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime.

[MysteRy]

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

[MysteRy]

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

[MysteRy]

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.

[MysteRy]

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

[MysteRy]

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

[MysteRy]

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

[MysteRy]

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

[MysteRy]

Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

[MysteRy]

So far about morals I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

[MysteRy]

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

[MysteRy]

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

[MysteRy]

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

[MysteRy]

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention out of his experience should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.