Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Worry Quotes

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Worry Quotes

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , People Quotes , Evil Quotes

I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Judging Quotes , Want Quotes

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Powerful Quotes

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Crazy Quotes , Party Quotes

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fate Quotes

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Today Quotes , Saws Quotes

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Lying Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Trying Quotes , Bed Quotes

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Baby Quotes

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Taken Quotes , I Hate You Quotes

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Peace Quotes , Military Quotes

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Lying Quotes , Blow Quotes

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Truth Quotes , Freedom Quotes

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stuff Quotes

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Hate Quotes , Body Quotes

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Understanding Quotes

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , War Quotes , Winning Quotes

This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Fall Quotes , World Quotes