“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“I have a good life but I must write because if I do not write a certain amount I do not enjoy the rest of my life.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Every day above earth is a good day.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
— Ernest Hemingway