Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

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.

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

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

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

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

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.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.