Ernest Hemingway
30 quotations
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
There is no friend as loyal as a book
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Man is not made for defeat.
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.