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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Ernest Hemingway
Awful, Wonderful, Certain
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

Ernest Hemingway
Love, Fall, Want

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Thinking, Modesty
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Car, Together
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Sun Also Rises”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Taken, History

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Men, Justice
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

Ernest Hemingway
Speak, Written
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.16, Melville House

I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Home, Night

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Men, Done
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1086, Simon and Schuster

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, People, Style
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Helping, Born
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3038, Simon and Schuster

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Beer, Meals
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

Ernest Hemingway
Mean, Phrases
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.75, Hamilton Books

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway
Grace, Definitions, Pressure
Quoted in New Yorker, 30 Nov. 1929 (profile by Dorothy Parker

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

Ernest Hemingway
Storm, Tolls, Might
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2717, Simon and Schuster

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Ernest Hemingway
Waste, Sin, Committed
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Ernest Hemingway
People, Evil, Dignity
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

Ernest Hemingway
Radio, Welcome, Certain
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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.

Ernest Hemingway
Morning, Work, Book
"Daily routines of Nikola Tesla, Mozart, Hemingway, Woody Allen, Maya Angelou, van Gogh, Stephen King, and Nabokov" by Thomas Oppong, www.cnbc.com. February 7, 2017.

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

Ernest Hemingway
Attitude, Sick, People
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Rewriting, Kind

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

Ernest Hemingway
Rain, Differences, Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.74, Hamilton Books

It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, People, Abuse
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.805, Simon and Schuster

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

Ernest Hemingway
Children, School, Yearbook

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