“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
– Ernest Hemingway