Ernest Hemingway: Doing (page 3)

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“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Complete Short Stories

Love , Silence

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Variant: Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Thinking , Time

“It’s funny," I said. "It’s very funny. And it’s a lot of fun, too, to be in love."

"Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again.

"I don’t mean fun that way. In a way it’s an enjoyable feeling."

"No," she said. "I think it’s hell on earth.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Love , Way , Feeling , Hell

“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

People , Thinking

“Do you always get so hungry when you make love?”
“When you love somebody.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Catherine and David Bourne in Ch. 1
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
Context: But I get so hungry,' she said. 'Is it normal do you think? Do you always get so hungry when you make love?'
'When you love somebody.

Love , Making love

“I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Complete Short Stories

Drink

“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Time , Past

“I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.

'It's a bore,' he said out loud.

'What is, my dear?'

'Anything you do too bloody long.”

Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Complete Short Stories

“Be patient, hand," he said. "I do this for you.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“It would be easy for us, if we do not learn to understand the world and appreciate the rights, privileges and duties of al other countries and peoples, to represent in our power the same danger to the world that Facism did.”

Ernest Hemingway

Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)

People , World , Understanding , Learning

“Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”

Ernest Hemingway

Paris Review interview (1958)

Failure , Understanding , Fight

“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”

Ernest Hemingway

Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)

Problem

“I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man…. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 12

Thinking

“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”

Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 7

Understanding

“You did not do so badly for something that is worthless. But there was a time when I could not find you.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Time

“Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
“I don’t know,” the boy said. “All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Men , Age , Boy , Sleep

“Get it straight. Your boy you lose. Love you lose. Honor has been gone for a long time. Duty you do.
Sure and what's your duty? What I said I'd do. And all the other things you said you'd do?”

Ernest Hemingway book Islands in the Stream

Pt. 2: Cuba (a few paragraphs from the end). The 'boy' is Thomas Hudson's last surviving son, Tom, a fighter pilot who was killed in action.
Islands in the Stream (1970)

Love , Boy , Time

“I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.”

Ernest Hemingway

Letter (3 July 1956); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

“But are there not many Fascists in your country?'
'There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes'.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 16 <!-- p 208-->

Time , Country