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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

Ernest Hemingway
Sorry, Love You, Useless
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Sad And Happy, Stories
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Ernest Hemingway
Art, Prayer, Names
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Ernest Hemingway
Military, War, Men

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

Ernest Hemingway
Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Water, Movement

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

Ernest Hemingway
Moving, Writing, Advantage

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

Ernest Hemingway
Pride, Men, Done
Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Ernest Hemingway
Humility, Loss, Pride

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Ernest Hemingway
Death, Writing, Stories
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2261, Simon and Schuster

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Ernest Hemingway
Butterfly, Wings, Dust
A Moveable Feast "Scott Fitzgerald" (1964)

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Ernest Hemingway
Love You, Fish In The Sea, Ends
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.15, Hamilton Books

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Next Day, Trying
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.10, Melville House

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

Ernest Hemingway
Lucky, Woods, Fool
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Believe, Home
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.30, Hamilton Books

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Cities, Paris
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Book, Battle

It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

Ernest Hemingway
House, Hunger, Hell
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

Ernest Hemingway
Real, Speech, Illusion

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Feels
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Practice, Giving

This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

Ernest Hemingway
Fall, World, Sin
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.8722, Simon and Schuster

Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

Ernest Hemingway
Girl, Love You, Eye
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Stills
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Men, Degrees
Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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