1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

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.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cold and you warm as you write.

A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don’t worry.

I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye – that was the trouble – I wanted to kiss you good night – and there’s a lot of difference.

I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.