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I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

Ernest Hemingway
Hate, Body, Cramps
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.17, Hamilton Books

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Tolls, Said
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2545, Simon and Schuster

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Said, Old Man
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.27, Hamilton Books

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Ernest Hemingway
Bottles, Milk, Poet
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Ernest Hemingway
Lakes, Sea, Fishing
"Atlantic Game Fishing". Book by S. Kip Farrington. Introduction to the book, 1937.

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

Ernest Hemingway
Brother, Dark, Said
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Ernest Hemingway
Father, Men, Sentimental

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Writing, Destructive
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.785, Simon and Schuster

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

Ernest Hemingway
Pride, Sea, Alive
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.31, Hamilton Books

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.

Ernest Hemingway
Memories, Paris, Ease
Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Gajdusek (1978). “Hemingway's Paris”, Scribner Book Company

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

Ernest Hemingway
Differences, Powder, Human Condition

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

Ernest Hemingway
Believe, Fighting, Men

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

Ernest Hemingway
Please, Can Do, I Can
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

Ernest Hemingway
Faith, Son, Thinking
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.3, Hamilton Books

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Ernest Hemingway
Sacrifice, Meat, Chicago
A Farewell to Arms ch. 27 (1929)

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, You Re Beautiful, May
"Mary Hemingway Dies at 78; Wrote of Life With Novelist" by Herbert Mitgang, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1986.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.

Ernest Hemingway
Blood
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Interest
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.6, Hamilton Books

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Ernest Hemingway
Cat, Wife, Cuba

Never confuse motions with action.

Ernest Hemingway
Dream, Action, Dream Job

Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

Ernest Hemingway
Knowing, Rereading, Juice
Source: www.mhpbooks.com

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Ill Health, Worry
Source: www.mhpbooks.com

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Doe, Would Be
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