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“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.”

Ernest Hemingway

Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (28 May 1934); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

“I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

“Your blood coagulates beautifully.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“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.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

As quoted in Reporting (1964) by Lillian Ross
Source: A Moveable Feast

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader”

Ernest Hemingway

“My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.'
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.”

Ernest Hemingway

“You'll lose it, if you talk about it”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“The bulls are my best friends."
I translated to Brett.
"You kill your friends?" she asked.
"Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope),…”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“I felt very lonely when they were all there.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast