I'm glad to get this behind me. What are they going to do with a 55-year-old man that's baldheaded, broke down, mentally unstable? What more can you do to me? I've lived a good life.


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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are ass...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nad...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creati...
ERNEST BARBARIC
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. Wh...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.
ERNEST DOWSON
A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
ERNEST NEWMAN
What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
ERNEST RENAN
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
ERNEST DIMNET
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
ERNEST RENAN
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit...
ERNEST DIMNET
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the...
ERNEST DIMNET
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into n...
ERNEST BECKER
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, workin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. B...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
ERNEST RENAN
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they...
ERNEST HELLO
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enou...
ERNEST RENAN
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the cl...
ERNEST RENAN
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religi...
ERNEST RENAN
Ideas are the roots of creation.
ERNEST DIMNET
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY