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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

Ernest Hemingway
Bed, Easy, Beats
Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.48, Hueber Verlag

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Bird, Chance
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.15, Hamilton Books

I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Wine, Glasses
Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

Ernest Hemingway
Mean, Going Away, Said
Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

But did thee feel the earth move?

Ernest Hemingway
Moving, Tolls, Earth
For Whom the Bell Tolls ch. 13 (1940)

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Thinking, Should
Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?

Ernest Hemingway
Care, Lost, Knows
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Ernest Hemingway
Might, Good Things, Said
Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Ernest Hemingway
Painting, Wells, True Things
Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Owl, Serious
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2301, Simon and Schuster

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

Ernest Hemingway
Dream, Sleep, Boys
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.38, Hamilton Books

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

Ernest Hemingway
Baseball, Giving, Feelings

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Ernest Hemingway
Hunting, Bird, Flying
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Thinking, Long

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

Ernest Hemingway
Eye, Men, Sun
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.2, Hamilton Books

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

Ernest Hemingway
Impossible, Emotion, Spoil
"Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition".

Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.

Ernest Hemingway
Night, Long, All Night
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.481, Simon and Schuster

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

Ernest Hemingway
Wall, Dark, Caring
Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

Yes, they have more money.

Ernest Hemingway
Money, More Money
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938).

Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.

Ernest Hemingway
Kissing, Noses
For Whom the Bell Tolls ch. 7 (1940)

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Ernest Hemingway
Tired, Strange, Easy
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

Ernest Hemingway
Fall, Sad And Happy, Heaven

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Drunk, Doe

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Ernest Hemingway
Unhappy Childhood, Training, Mice
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1087, Simon and Schuster

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