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“Please love me David the way I am. Please understand and love me.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Catherine in Ch. 1
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)

“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Variant: But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“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 (1935)

“Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”

Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa

Source: Green Hills of Africa

“I kissed her neck and shoulders. I felt faint with loving her so much.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”

Ernest Hemingway

“But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“Strong in all the Broken Places”

Ernest Hemingway

“Not the why but the what.”

Ernest Hemingway

“You're my religion. You're all I've got.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Catherine, in Ch. 18
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Variant: You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

“There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“The only kind of writing is rewriting.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Source: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

“I don’t know. There isn’t always an explanation for everything.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Variant: There isnt always an explanation for everything.
Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Work could cure almost anything”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast