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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 fighter's honor.

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 fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway
Death, Art, Honor
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

Ernest Hemingway
Horse, Race, Morbid
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Ernest Hemingway
Honesty, Cat, Emotional
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Never mistake motive for action.

Ernest Hemingway
Mistake, Action, Motive

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

Ernest Hemingway
Honesty, Cat, Emotional

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

Ernest Hemingway
Attitude, Golf, Games
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

Ernest Hemingway
Girl, Lonely, Jealous
Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, People, Enough
Source: www.mhpbooks.com

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

Ernest Hemingway
Worst Times, Strange, Comic
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

Ernest Hemingway
Morning, Spring, Rain
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Crime, Infantry
"Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

Ernest Hemingway
Feelings, Trying, Stories

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

Ernest Hemingway
People, Together, Cafes
Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Gajdusek (1978). “Hemingway's Paris”, Scribner Book Company

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Writing, Finishing It

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

Ernest Hemingway
Simple, Breathing, Cities
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Ernest Hemingway
Silly, Want, Farewell To Arms

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Ernest Hemingway
Good Life, Biblical, Complaining
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2704, Simon and Schuster

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway
Believe, Silly, Men

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

Ernest Hemingway
Love, Book, Writing
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.785, Simon and Schuster

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

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

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

Ernest Hemingway
Believe, Arteries, Faster
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7338, Simon and Schuster

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway
Inspiring, Death, Hate
For Whom the Bell Tolls ch. 43 (1940)

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

Ernest Hemingway
Hurt, Morning, Book

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Said, Behinds
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

Ernest Hemingway
Order, Impossible, Said
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2697, Simon and Schuster

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