119 Quotes About Hemingway

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

When words fail, the hammer drops,living can never be its own excuse.

Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. - about Wyndham Lewis

The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.

I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.

My big fish must be somewhere.

Ernest Hemingway once advised prose artists to 'Write hard and clear about what hurts.

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota. Al hombre se le puede destruir, pero no derrotar.

The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of early morning, sweeping out and mopping, and luck were all you needed. For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.