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Never fall in love? Always, said the count. I am always in love.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

Ernest Hemingway
Falling In Love, Said, Never Fall In Love
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.32, Hamilton Books

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

Ernest Hemingway
Heart, Cutting, Men
"The Hemingway Collection".

Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Yellow, White
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

Ernest Hemingway
Country, Hate, War
Ernest Hemingway (1929). “A Farewell to Arms: With an Introd”

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

Ernest Hemingway
Beach, Cat, Fighting
Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.9, Hueber Verlag

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Worry, Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

Ernest Hemingway
Heart, Broken, Way
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

Ernest Hemingway
Hurt, Care, Beats
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway
Life, Death, Military
Men at War introduction (1942)

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Men, Alcohol

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

Ernest Hemingway
World, Blur, Clear
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.114, Hamilton Books

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

Ernest Hemingway
Ocean, Writing, Men
Source: www.kateyschultz.com

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Names, Honor
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Ernest Hemingway (2009). “Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms”, p.49, Infobase Publishing

But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. 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.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Thinking, Paris
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Hard Times, Time Keeping
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

Ernest Hemingway
Crazy, Innocent
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.6814, Simon and Schuster

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Boxing

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway
Dog, Peace, War
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Want, Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.62, Hamilton Books

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

Ernest Hemingway
Fun, Circus

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Ernest Hemingway
Good Day, Thinking, Two
Source: www.mhpbooks.com

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

Ernest Hemingway
Girl, Years, Fifty
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Ernest Hemingway
Funny, Fathers Day, Dad
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Regret, Awards
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

Ernest Hemingway
Fear, Rain, Farewell
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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