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“Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.”

Ernest Hemingway

“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Complete Short Stories

“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”

Ernest Hemingway

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. […] it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”

Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa

Part I, Ch. 1
Green Hills of Africa (1935)

“Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.”

Ernest Hemingway

“I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ch 43
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”

Ernest Hemingway

Men Without Women (short story collection) (1927)
Source: The Complete Short Stories

“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Variant: I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
Source: The Sun Also Rises

“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”

Ernest Hemingway

“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war."
Defeat is worse."
I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.”

Ernest Hemingway

Variant: I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
Source: The Complete Short Stories