1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.