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I felt very lonely when they were all there.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

Ernest Hemingway
Lonely, Felt
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.78, Hamilton Books

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway
Business, Writing, Thinking
"With Hemingway". Book by Arnold Samuelson, 1984.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Worry, Vices
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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Ernest Hemingway
Witty, Powerful, Humorous
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Cheating, Writing
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

Ernest Hemingway
Crazy, Party, Drinking

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Ernest Hemingway
Notebook, Moveable Feast, Pencils
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Ernest Hemingway
Good Friend, Brave, Luck

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Ernest Hemingway
Travel, Water, Sun

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

Ernest Hemingway
Humorous, Drinking, Beer

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

Ernest Hemingway
Farewell, Writing, Arms

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Rocks, Literature
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

Ernest Hemingway
Care, Found, Wanted
The Sun Also Rises ch. 14 (1926)

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Ernest Hemingway
Reading, Writing, Pleasure
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi

For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

Ernest Hemingway
Horse, Long Ago, Feet
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Ernest Hemingway
Business, Rain, Sacrifice
"A Farewell to Arms". Book by Ernest Hemingway., 1929.

No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.

Ernest Hemingway
Two, World, Estonia
"To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 24, 1937.

War is not won by victory.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Victory
Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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.

Ernest Hemingway
Light, Years, Wind
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3236, Simon and Schuster

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

Ernest Hemingway
May, Fisherman
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.4, Hamilton Books

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway
Courage, Strong, People
Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

Work could cure almost anything

Ernest Hemingway
Cures
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Ernest Hemingway
Country, War, Men
Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

Ernest Hemingway
Dirty, School, Writing
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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