Ernest Hemingway: Idézetek angolul (oldal 8)

“Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.”

“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”

“If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”

“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel…”

“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”

“I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

“Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.”

“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”

“When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.”

“Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.”

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”

“it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.”

“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”

“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”

“I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”

“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”

“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”

“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”