The world breaks everyone ... those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Farewell to Arms
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, For Whom the Bell Tolls
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Moveable Feast
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, "On the Blue Water," Esquire, Apr. 1936
One cat just leads to another.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, as quoted in Louis G. Morton's E-mail Humor
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1954
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, "Notes on the Next War," Esquire, Sep. 1935
You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, as quoted by his son in Papa, a Personal Memoir
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, July 1, 1925
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Old Man and The Sea
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