Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I don't love anybody, Krebs said. It wasn't any good. He couldn't tell her, he couldn't make her see it. It was silly to have said it. He had only hurt her.

I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of these bitches that ruins children.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me. Should we have another Martini? The barman shook up two more Martinis and poured them out into fresh glasses.

Se si sta abbastanza a lungo in una stanza la veduta, qualunque sia, acquista un gran valore e diventa importantissima e nessuno la cambierebbe, nemmeno per una diversa angolazione.

A kidder gets to be an awful thing around a camp if his stuff goes sort of sour.

E' la guerra dissi. In guerra è necessario mantenere la disciplina. E per vivere sotto quella disciplina noi dovremmo morire? Tanto senza disciplina moriremo tutti.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

it is much easier to be the opposition to a government than to run the government yourself.

Quando le cose vanno bene e sei tu a sentirti giù di corda, un bicchiere può parti sentir meglio. Ma quando sono le cose ad andar male e tu bene, un bicchiere non può far altro che chiarirti ulteriormente il concetto.

It was lovely in the nights and if we could only touch each other we were happy. Besides all the big times we had many small ways of making love and we tried putting thoughts in the other one's head while we were in different rooms. It seemed to work sometimes but that is probably because we were thinking the same thing anyway.

A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.

There was nothing to it, gentlemen. All a man need ever do is obey.

Tu sais, Papa, que les femmes pleurent comme les enfants pissent?

You ought to dream," Bill said. "All our biggest business men have been dreamers. Look at Ford. Look at President Coolidge. Look at Rockefeller. Look at Jo Davidson.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense, but just enough to be careless. For God's sake, I said, yes, don't you? Oh, how charmingly you get angry, he said. I wish I had that faculty.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. -

I turned on the light again and read. I read the Turgenieff. I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after much too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterward it would seem as though it had really happened to me. I would always have it.

When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice.

There's something romantic about poverty when you're young and hopeful.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

I drank a bottle of wine for company.

In order to write about life first you must live it." ? Ernest Hemingway

Nadie vive jamás la vida en toda su intensidad, excepto los toreros

El mundo nos rompe a todos, mas después, algunos se vuelven fuertes en los lugares rotos