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Ernest Hemingway quotes

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“It is silly not to hope . . . Besides I believe it is a sin.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
“But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.” Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Pain does not matter to a man.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Wine is a grand thing . . . It makes you forget all the bad.” Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“You never understand anybody that loves you.” Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
“The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. But it is unavoidable.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Everything kills everything else in some way.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is...” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“All thinking men are atheists” Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. . . . I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“I may not be as strong as I think . . . But I know many tricks and I have resolution.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.” Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“No animal has more liberty than the cat; but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.” Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Fish . . . I'll stay with you until I am dead.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“War is not won by victory.” Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“When you start to live outside yourself . . . it's all dangerous.” Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
“First you borrow. Then you beg.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.” Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
“you mustn't believe in killing . . . You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.” Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Every one needs to talk to some one . . . Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.” Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
“luck . . . I'd like to buy some if there's any place they sell it” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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The Old Man and the Sea (28)
The Garden of Eden (3)
A Farewell to Arms (5)
Islands in the Stream (1)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (3)
A Moveable Feast (1)