Quote: Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: All thinking men are atheists. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: All things truly wicked start from an innocence. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: Courage is grace under pressure. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: 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. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: 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. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time). [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: A man can be destroyed but not defeated. [Ernest Hemingway]
Quote: From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows? [Ernest Hemingway]