3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway 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.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway 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.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
