Ernest Hemingway: Idézetek angolul (oldal 16)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Strong in all the Broken Places”

“Not the why but the what.”

“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.”

“I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.”

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

“The only kind of writing is rewriting.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Work could cure almost anything”

“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”