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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.

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
Life, Travel, Men
A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Feel Better, Feels

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Ernest Hemingway
Abuse, Afternoon, Littles
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

Ernest Hemingway
Girl, Rain, Cutting
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Writing, Weather

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Ernest Hemingway
Literature, Subjects

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Epic
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Past, Murder
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.193, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

Ernest Hemingway
Mean, Helping, Strange
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Nice, Wine
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.74, Hamilton Books

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

Ernest Hemingway
Language, Bureaucracy, Diplomacy
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2756, Simon and Schuster

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. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Intelligent, Found Happiness
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1970). “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM”

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Usa, Literature
Green Hills of Africa ch. 1 (1935)

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Ernest Hemingway
Feet, Snow, House
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938)

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Ernest Hemingway
Would Be, Generations, Lost
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

The best writing is certainly when you are in love

Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Ernest Hemingway
Art, Thee
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Thinking, Paris
Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Ill Health, Worry
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.12, Melville House

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Preparation, Training
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing
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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

Ernest Hemingway
Wine, May, Infinite
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Our Words, Afternoon
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Ernest Hemingway
Brave, Coward, Thousand

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Ernest Hemingway
Lonely, Writing, Lonely Life
Ernest Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner, Albert J. DeFazio (2005). “Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner”, p.6, University of Missouri Press

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