Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for your to conform completely and never differ from some accepted surface standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boreing way there was.

The man isn't born for defeats.He can fall from grace,but he cannot be defeated.

We're all broken that's how the light gets in.

The room they lived in looked like the painting of Van Gogh's room at Arles except there was a double bed and two big windows and you could look out across the water and the marsh and sea meadows to the white town and bright beach of Palavas.

I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.

To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.

Oh, I love you so. Please put your hand there again. It's not been away. I turned her so I could see her face when I kissed her and I saw that her eyes were shut. I kissed both her shut eyes. I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.

I'm going back to Mike." I could feel her crying as I held her close. "He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know

You know I do know how he feels. He can't believe it didn't mean anything.