119 Quotes About Hemingway

Una mujer es una rosa, no un jarrón. La mujer no está hecha para la destrucción. Una mujer puede ser derrotada, pero no destruida.

You're more prejudiced against Paul Mansell than I've ever known you to be against anyone," said Hannasyde."Not prejudiced,"said the Sergeant firmly. "I never let myself get prejudiced. All I say is, that he's a nasty, slimy, double-faced tick who'd murder his own grandmother if he saw a bit of money to be got out of it.

No writer know the future of literature beyond what he’ll write the next morning, if that.

I once asked him if he kept journals or notes of any kind to supplement his memory. He said ‘no, always made things stick. Never kept notes or a journal. Just push the recall button and there it is. If it wasn’t there, it wasn’t worth keeping.

Ernest Hemingway is also in my non-read zone, because if you learn a lot from Gertrude Stein, you shouldn't be a homophobic, antisemitic misogynist.

I never believe anything until I get proof," replied Hemingway. "But what I have got is flair!""I have heard you say so," meekly responded his subordinate.

But an army that is made up of good and bad elements cannot win a war. All must be brought to a certain level of political development; all must know why they are fighting, and its importance. All must believe in the fight they are to make and all must accept discipline. - For Whom the Bell Tolls

When spring came, even false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits

Decía Hemingway que al describir un paisaje quería que el lector se quedara con la memoria del paisaje y no con las palabras usadas para describirlo.