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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Ernest Hemingway
Military, War, Men

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

Ernest Hemingway
Two, Way, Two Ways

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Worry, Maps
"Hemingway and Dietrich letters". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 3, 2007.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

Ernest Hemingway
Silence, Needs, Used

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

Ernest Hemingway
Sick, Faithful, Faults
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.68, Hamilton Books

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

Ernest Hemingway
Girl, Men, Lunch
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.122, Hamilton Books

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Ernest Hemingway
Mean, Names, Rivers
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.109, Hamilton Books

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

Ernest Hemingway
Wish, Died

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Goes On, Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Ernest Hemingway
Evil, Feels, Immoral

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Good Day, Two
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.11, Melville House

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

Ernest Hemingway
Military, Size, Overcoming
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2966, Simon and Schuster

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

Ernest Hemingway
Liquor, Said, Good Place
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

Ernest Hemingway
Mother, School, Years
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.118, Univ. Press of Mississippi

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.

Ernest Hemingway
Fashion, Lonely, Men
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

Ernest Hemingway
Should
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

Ernest Hemingway
Running, War, Dirty
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Food, Beer
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “To Have and Have Not”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

Ernest Hemingway
Funny, Humorous, Drinking
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.

Ernest Hemingway
Judging, Want, Matter

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Reading, Reading Books
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.18, Melville House

Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

Ernest Hemingway
Morning, Coffee, Cutting
Ernest Hemingway (2007). “The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

Ernest Hemingway
Track, Wife, Saws
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Water, Feelings
Death in the Afternoon ch. 16 (1932)

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Judging, Quality
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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