Ernest Hemingway: Idézetek angolul (oldal 7)

“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”

“It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.”

“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”

“You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

“He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.”

“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”

“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”

“You've such a lovely temperature.”

“We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.”

“If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”

“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it”

“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”

“You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.”

“Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.”

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”

“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.”