Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

22
Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway View more at here: http://bestskills.net

Transcript of Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Page 1: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Page 2: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 3: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 4: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 5: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 6: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 7: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 8: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 9: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 10: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 11: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 12: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 13: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 14: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Ernest Hemingway

Page 15: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 16: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 17: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 18: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 19: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 20: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

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.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 21: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here: http://bestskills.net

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Page 22: Top 20 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

View more at here http://bestskills.net