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“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 30

“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Variant: All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and can coast down them. … Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motorcar only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”

Ernest Hemingway

[By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway, White, William, 1967, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 364]
Source: By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

Ernest Hemingway

Letter (6 December 1924); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Variant: You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
Source: The Garden of Eden

“My big fish must be somewhere.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16

“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?'
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)