Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

He was completely integrated now and he took a good long look at everything. Then he looked up at the sky. There were big white clouds in it. He touched the palm of his hand against the pine needles where he lay and he touched the bark of the pine trunk that he lay behind.

Wipe the pap of your mother's breast off thy lips and give me a hatful of that dirt,' the man with his chin on the ground said. 'No one of us will see the sun go down this night.

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places. I do not know about that now but this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

In the snowstorm you came close to wild animals and they were not afraid. They travelled across country not knowing where they were and the deer stood sometimes in the lee of the cabin. In a snowstorm you rode up to a moose and he mistook your horse for another moose and trotted forward to meet you. In a snowstorm it always seemed, for a time, as though there were no enemies.

Why must man not marry? He cannot marry. He cannot marry, he said angrily. If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose.

If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.

She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick.

You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment where I could not find you.

Your nationality and your politics did not show when you were dead. Robert

The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him.

I always like the bad ones. I know he's a bad one of some sort.

She smiled and her face was heartbreaking.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO Everything is mucho simpler in a hospital, including jokes

For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what. I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

Madame, it is always a mistake to know an author. (p.215)

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it.

Is dying hard, Daddy? No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.

For all of us who lived in Paris; we will never forget it because Paris is a moveable feast

Listen. You're a hell of a good guy, and I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot. That was what the Civil War was about. Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant. So was Jefferson Davis. Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet. The Dred Scott case was framed by the Anti-Saloon League. Sex explains it all. The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are Lesbians under their skin. (101)

Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. No, Nick said.

There is milk? What luxury!