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I drink to make other people more interesting.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Ernest Hemingway
Funny, Life, Drinking
"How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal". Book by David Gillespie, Mark Warren, 2013.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Feelings, Contact

The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Mirrors, Ideas
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.8524, Simon and Schuster

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Wine, Bottles
Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Beer, Way

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

Ernest Hemingway
Crazy, Party, Drinking

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

Ernest Hemingway
Humorous, Drinking, Beer

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Men, Alcohol

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

Ernest Hemingway
Drinking, Beer, Meals
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Powerful, Drinking
Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, 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

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

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

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