Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

You can tell them," Bill said. "They get this sort of fat married look. They're done for.

I'm minding my own business, sir! How many people do you think actually do that by choice? Does it bother you? Of course it bothers you. A clear conscience is always supposed to bother a cripple-minded idiot like you

But you have not slept yet, old man," he said aloud. "It is half a day and a night and now another day and you have not slept. You must devise a way so that you sleep a little if he is quiet and steady. If you do not sleep you might become unclear in the head.

And now this life that she had built again was coming to a term because he had not used iodine two weeks ago when a thorn had scratched his knee as they moved forward trying to photograph a herd of waterbuck standing, their heads up, peering while their nostrils searched the air, their ears spread wide to hear the first noise that would send them rushing into the bush.

Here he was, settled on the island, when he could as well be in Africa. Hell, he thought, I can always go there. You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are. You are doing all right at that here.

In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.

But why did I ever leave Tom's mother in the first place? You'd better not think about that, he told himself.

Inaccrochable - A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein

It was hot, but the town had a cool, fresh, early-morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the café.

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull.

These were relics of his wife. Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt.

He was nervous, and I did not try to help him any.

Ein Klassiker ist ein Buch, das die Leute loben, aber nicht lesen.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.

I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn--nor as eager. I was enjoying it. It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. Cohn had a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody.

They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything

He hated injustice as he hated cruelty and he lay in his rage that blinded his mind until gradually the anger died down and the red, black, blinding, killing anger was all gone and his mind now as quiet, empty-calm and sharp, cold-seeing as a man is after he has had sexual intercourse with a woman that he does not love.

write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

I went back to Bill. He blew his breath at me to show how cold it was, and went on playing.

That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands.