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“I had an inheritance from my father,
It was the moon and the sun.
And though I roam all over the world,
The spending of it’s never done.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”

Ernest Hemingway

Nobel Prize Speech (1954)

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 11

“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel…”

Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Complete Short Stories

“I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”

Ernest Hemingway

“When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden