Ernest Hemingway: Idézetek angolul (oldal 15)

“Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”

“You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.”

“Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.”

“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”

“He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled…”

“The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.”

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

“You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.”

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.”

“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.”

“wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg”

“World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.”

“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”

“Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.”

“I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.”

“I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.”

“The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.”

“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”

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