“Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary...”
— Ernest Hemingway
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My big fish must be somewhere.”
“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.”
“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”
“When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.”
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
“Being against evil doesn’t make you good.”
“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.”
“Remember everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong.”
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
“The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.”
“No one you love is ever truly lost.”
“The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.”
“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”
“I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.”
“I don’t want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.”
“Live it up so you can write it down.”
“I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.”
“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”
“The smallest coffins are the heaviest.”
“You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.”
“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“To be successful in writing, use short sentences.”
“Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.”
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.”
“I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.”
“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
“The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.”
“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”
“To hell with luck. I’ll bring the luck with me.”
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.”
“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”
“Religion is the opium of the poor.”
“A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.”
“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
“I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.”
“Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.”
“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
“A bottle of wine was good company.”
“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.”
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