All my life Ive looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when Im awake, you know? – Ernest Hemingway
Every mans life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. – Ernest Hemingway
Ive tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that Im afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. – Ernest Hemingway
That terrible mood of depression of whether its any good or not is what is known as The Artists Reward. – Ernest Hemingway
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway
I dont like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you cant do it. – Ernest Hemingway
A mans got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. – Ernest Hemingway
Its none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. – Ernest Hemingway
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighters honor. – Ernest Hemingway
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. – Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. – Ernest Hemingway
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive. – Ernest Hemingway
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. – Ernest Hemingway
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. – Ernest Hemingway
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. – Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. – Ernest Hemingway
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. – Ernest Hemingway
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. – Ernest Hemingway
