Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

É bom que não tenhamos de tentar matar a lua, o sol ou as estrelas. Já é ruim viver no mar e ter de matar os nossos verdadeiros irmãos

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO It is necessary to be very strong against something

You know it makes me feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

The town was very nice and our house was very fine. The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way.

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

Robert Jordan knew that now his papers were being examined by the man who could not read.

The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.

I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck.

He lived in Udine and came out in this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly.

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of, and you welcome them and resent the new things

I loved to take her hair down and she sat on the bed and kept very still, except suddenly she would dip down to kiss me while I was doing it, and I would take out the pins and lay them on the sheet and it would be loose and I would watch her while she kept very still and then take out the last two pins and it would all come down and she would drop her head and we would both be inside of it, and it was the feeling of inside a tent or behind a falls.

Good night then. I will wake you in the morning." "You're my alarm clock," the boy said. "Age is my alarm clock," the old man said. "Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?" "I don't know," the boy said. "All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard." "I can remember it," the old man said. "I'll waken you in time.

Leave me with my memories. With my true, beautiful memories.

Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky, he thought.

Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so?

The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended.

He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman.

They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations.

I wish I had the boy.

If I find any Krauts, can I kill them?" "The Colonel said all but one," Thomas Hudson said. "Try to save a smart one." "I'll give them all IQ tests before I open up." "Give yourself one." "Mine's goddam low or I wouldn't be here," Willie said, and he set out. He walked contemptuously and he watched the beach and the country ahead as carefully as a man could watch.

He could see the fish and he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern to know that this had truly happened and was not a dream.

Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it.

I do feel better, Thomas Hudson thought. That is the funny part. You always feel better and you always get over your remorse. There's only one thing you don't get over and that is death.