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Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

Ernest Hemingway
Broken Heart, Love Is, Doors

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Procrastination, Trying
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

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

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Writing, Lucky
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

Ernest Hemingway
Drunk, Littles, Enough
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.12, Hamilton Books

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Ernest Hemingway
Animal, Had Enough, Enough
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1970). “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM”

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

Ernest Hemingway
Long, Rabbits, Thee
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3006, Simon and Schuster

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Loyalty, Judgement
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Ernest Hemingway
Moving, Writing, Talking

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

Ernest Hemingway
Animal, Men, Giving

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

Ernest Hemingway
Balls, Bulls, Bells

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

Ernest Hemingway
Yesterday, Tomorrow, Life Is
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Training, Dinner
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Cost, Pay

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Ernest Hemingway
Fun, May, Should
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Trying, World

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

Ernest Hemingway
Morning, Thinking, Glasses
Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

Ernest Hemingway
Sorry, Mystery, Understood
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Mean, Men
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.39, Melville House

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

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

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

Ernest Hemingway
Scott Fitzgerald, Lightning

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Two, People
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg

Ernest Hemingway
Believe, Eggs, Long
Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

Ernest Hemingway
Paris, Would Be, Way

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

Ernest Hemingway
Morning, War, Writing

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