Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

He had tried a few practice matches with his left hand. But his left hand had always been a traitor and would not do what he called on it to do and he did not trust it.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

Desconfio de todas as pessoas francas e simples, principalmente quando suas histórias são coerentes.

Durante o dia, nada mais fácil do que mostrar que não se dá importância, mas, à noite, é diferente.

But we liked Miss Stein and her friend, although the friend was frightening, and the paintings and the cakes and the eau-devie were truly wonderful. They seemed to like us too and treated us as though we were very good, well-mannered and promising children and I felt that they forgave us for being in love and being married—time would fix that—and when my wife invited them to tea, they accepted.

A plan was a plan and a decision was truly a decision and knowing all this and having been well educated in the usages of divorce, Thomas Hudson was happy that a compromise had been made and that the children were coming for five weeks. If five weeks is what we get, he thought, that is what we draw. Five weeks is a good long time to be with people that you love and would wish to be with always.

I have never seen a man who lost the blood from his face so fast, and I wondered where it went

Each time he fought he fought to kill and the other bulls were not afraid of him because they came of good blood and were not afraid.

He was eighteen feet from nose to tail, the fisherman who was measuring him called.

Now the boy was gone and the kitten had grown into an old cat and had outlived the boy. The way he and Boise felt now, he thought, neither one wanted to outlive the other. I don't know how many people and animals have been in love before, he thought. It probably is a very comic situation. But I don't find it comic at all.

I knew there were many side-roads but did not want one that would lead to nothing.

I drink a little now once in a while, just to drive the wolf out of the room

I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat.

There is a time to break all your rules. Maybe not all.

never asks for whom the bell tolls;it tolls for you.

There never was another part of Paris that he loved like that

We'll come home and eat here and we'll have a lovely meal and drink Beaune from the co-operative you can see right out of the window there with the price of the Beaune on the window. And afterwards we'll read and then go to bed and make love." "And we'll never love anyone else but each other." "No. Never.

a brave man is always frightened three times by a lion; when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar and when he first confronts him.

What will you do now if they come in the night? What can you do? Fight them, he said. I will fight them until I die.

What hast thou against the onion? The odor. Nothing more. Otherwise it is like the rose.

The anger and the emptiness and the hate that had come with the let-down after the bridge, when he had looked up from where he had lain and crouching, seen Anselmo dead, were still all through him. In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers. Now it was over he was lonely, detached and unrelated and he hated every one he saw.

Don't forget to tell Pedrico the head is his.

But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that nor thought that it could happen. So if your life trades its seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.