1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

We have very primative emotions. It’s impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

Everything that’s innocent to us is crazy to them.

There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ’forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man’s duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago.