Ernest Hemingway: Trending quotes (page 9)

“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."”

“You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.”

“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”

“Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary…”

“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without”

“Hunger is good discipline.”

“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”

“If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”

“You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”

“But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.”

“Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.”

“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”

“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”

“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”

“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.”

“Good writing is good conversation, only more so.”

“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”

“I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together”