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We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Moving, Fighting

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

Ernest Hemingway
Odd Things, Righteousness, Foe
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2699, Simon and Schuster

Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

Ernest Hemingway
Syphilis, Firsts, Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

Ernest Hemingway
Way, Trustworthy, Persons
"Papa Hemingway" by A.E. Hotchner, (Pt. 2, Ch. 6), 1966.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

Ernest Hemingway
Wine, Farewell To Arms, Forget
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.92, Hamilton Books

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Ernest Hemingway
Military, Stronger, Negative

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

Ernest Hemingway
Honesty, Writing, Editing
Men at War introduction (1942)

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Fighting, Machines

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

Ernest Hemingway
Funny, Humorous, Taste And Judgment
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

Ernest Hemingway
Sea, Land, House
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

Ernest Hemingway
World, Impossible, Said
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Reading, People
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

Ernest Hemingway
Sex, Talking, Fake
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.58, Hamilton Books

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

Ernest Hemingway
Stupid, Worry, Serious Work
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.24, Melville House

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Ernest Hemingway
Bed, Wake Up, Mouths
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.58, Hamilton Books

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

Ernest Hemingway
Adventure, Skydiving, Proximity
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1329, Simon and Schuster

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway
Life And Death, Feel Good, Feelings
"Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 1), 1932.

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

Ernest Hemingway
Country, People, Quality
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.119, Hamilton Books

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

Ernest Hemingway
Running, Nature, Stars

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

Ernest Hemingway
Party, Drunk, Lines

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Ernest Hemingway
Children, Book, Men
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

Ernest Hemingway
Style, Trying, Might
Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.21, Melville House

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Symbols, Clumsy

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Ernest Hemingway
Courage, Time, Fighting
"Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn, 1946.

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Ernest Hemingway
Character, Kids, Thinking
Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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