1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.