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Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

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

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Ernest Hemingway
Suicide, Real, Prevention
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Want, Said
"For Whom the Bell Tolls".

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

Ernest Hemingway
Rain, Light, Doors

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

Ernest Hemingway
Notebook, Coffee, Writing

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

Ernest Hemingway
Doors, Bed, Saws
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.54, Hamilton Books

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

Ernest Hemingway
Journey, Thinking, Hiking
Ernest Hemingway (2009). “A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, People
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Trying, Littles

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

Ernest Hemingway
Humility, Needs, May
Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

Ernest Hemingway
Arms, Cheese, Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.38, Hamilton Books

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

Ernest Hemingway
Endurance, Firsts, Endure
Ernest Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner, Albert J. DeFazio (2005). “Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner”, p.12, University of Missouri Press

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Book, Writing
Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

Ernest Hemingway
Finishing, Want, Next

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

Ernest Hemingway
Too Much
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

Ernest Hemingway
Home, Men, Hands

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

Ernest Hemingway
Hurt, Writing, Patriotic
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

Ernest Hemingway
Fear, Children, Men
"True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

Ernest Hemingway
Country, Writing, Printing
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.58, Hamilton Books

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Ernest Hemingway
Power, Giving, Times Of Crisis
Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway
Running, Country, Artist

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Stories
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Law, Addresses
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Ernest Hemingway
Lying, Care, Firsts
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

Ernest Hemingway
Dog, Writing, Sisterhood
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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