If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. – Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. – Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. – Ernest Hemingway
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway
All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened. – Ernest Hemingway
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. – Ernest Hemingway
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. – Ernest Hemingway
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway
In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? – Ernest Hemingway
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. – Ernest Hemingway
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. – Ernest Hemingway
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. – Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. – Ernest Hemingway
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. – Ernest Hemingway
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. – Ernest Hemingway
