Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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601. “Wars are caused by undefended wealth.”

— Ernest Hemingway

602. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

— Ernest Hemingway

603. “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

604. “Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn’t help it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

605. “If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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606. “I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be.”

— Ernest Hemingway

607. “I wanted to try this new drink: That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?”

— Ernest Hemingway

608. “When you start to live outside yourself, it’s all dangerous.”

— Ernest Hemingway

609. “Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

610. “God knows I didn’t mean to fall in love with her.”

— Ernest Hemingway

611. “War is not won by victory.”

— Ernest Hemingway

612. “If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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613. “Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.”

— Ernest Hemingway

614. “Good dialogue is not real speech-it’s the illusion of real speech.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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615. “I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.”

— Ernest Hemingway

616. “I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”

— Ernest Hemingway

617. “It’s harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”

— Ernest Hemingway

618. “All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn’t care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.”

— Ernest Hemingway

619. “Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn’t really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.”

— Ernest Hemingway

620. “There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.”

— Ernest Hemingway

621. “You’ve such a lovely temperature.”

— Ernest Hemingway

622. “There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

623. “I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.”

— Ernest Hemingway

624. “I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.”

— Ernest Hemingway

625. “I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

627. “Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

628. “God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.”

— Ernest Hemingway

629. “We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”

— Ernest Hemingway

630. “He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...”

— Ernest Hemingway

631. “I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

632. “All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.”

— Ernest Hemingway

633. “I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.”

— Ernest Hemingway

634. “I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.”

— Ernest Hemingway

635. “The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.”

— Ernest Hemingway

636. “Creation’s probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.”

— Ernest Hemingway

637. “Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.”

— Ernest Hemingway

638. “No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”

— Ernest Hemingway

639. “This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.”

— Ernest Hemingway

640. “A big lie is more plausible than truth.”

— Ernest Hemingway

641. “All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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642. “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.”

— Ernest Hemingway

643. “In war, one cannot say what one feels.”

— Ernest Hemingway

644. “A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

645. “Your blood coagulates beautifully.”

— Ernest Hemingway

646. “I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”

— Ernest Hemingway

647. “What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.”

— Ernest Hemingway

648. “Don’t you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

649. “I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”

— Ernest Hemingway

650. “And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.”

— Ernest Hemingway