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I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.

Ernest Hemingway
Spring, Paris, Lovely
Ernest Hemingway (1996). “A Moveable Feast”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

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

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

Ernest Hemingway
Spiritual, Believe, Animal
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2310, Simon and Schuster

I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Powerful, Drinking
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

Ernest Hemingway
Kissing, Romantic Love, Lips
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Ernest Hemingway
Luck, Form
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.35, Hamilton Books

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

Ernest Hemingway
Real, Rain, Moving
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

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

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Understanding, Problem
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.31, Hamilton Books

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway
Love, Life, Relationship
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Ernest Hemingway
Age, Should, Old Age
Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

Ernest Hemingway
Loneliness, Writing, Organization
Bryan Patrick Harnetiaux, Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Full-length Play”, p.4, Dramatic Publishing

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Ernest Hemingway
Wine, Vineyards, World
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Men, Wonder
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.498, Simon and Schuster

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

Ernest Hemingway
Stars, Trying, Old Man
Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.26, Hueber Verlag

They arrested us after breakfast.

Ernest Hemingway
Breakfast, Arrested

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Farewell To Arms, Common
"Papa Hemingway". Book by A. E. Hotchner. Part 2, Chapter 7, 1966.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

Ernest Hemingway
Funny, Beautiful, Death
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Ernest Hemingway
Food, Wine, Cooking
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Ernest Hemingway
Baby, Want
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.100, Hamilton Books

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And 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
Life, Biblical, Two
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

Ernest Hemingway
Water, Doe, Stories

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Reading, Boys
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway
Time, Writing, Important

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Paris, America
"The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-22, edted by Sandra Spanier and Robert W Trogdon - review" by Sarah Churchwell, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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