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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway
Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military
Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

Ernest Hemingway
Moving, Cat, Pet

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

Ernest Hemingway
Death, Home, Simple
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Ernest Hemingway
Travel, Writing, Mind
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.700, Simon and Schuster

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

Ernest Hemingway
Music, Sarcastic, Clever
Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

Ernest Hemingway
Baseball, Father, Men
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Talent, Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Writing, Life And Death
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Fiesta, Consequence
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.78, Hamilton Books

Never mistake movement for action

Ernest Hemingway
Mistake, Movement, Action

What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

Ernest Hemingway
Women, Thinking, Matter
"The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway". The Hemingway Library Edition,

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

Ernest Hemingway
Night, Knives, Piano

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Writing, Sacred
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Ernest Hemingway
Country, Moving, Differences
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

Ernest Hemingway
Long, Rest Of Your Life, Praise
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2701, Simon and Schuster

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Water, Waiting
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.14, Melville House

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Trying, Principles
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.27, Melville House

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

Ernest Hemingway
Eye, Looks, World
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.14, Hamilton Books

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Sorrow, Progress
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Stories, Lines

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

Ernest Hemingway
Next, Stills, Happens

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Simple, Thinking
Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Thinking, Complicated
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

Ernest Hemingway
Able, Forget, Knows
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.8, Hamilton Books

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Ernest Hemingway
White, Boxing, Chicago

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