Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

Remember the woods were God's first temples.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and able.

It is not bad," Santiago said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.

Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.

It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. "Nothing," he said aloud. "I went out too far.

He is performing a work of art and he is playing with death, bringing it closer, closer, closer, to himself, a death that you know is in the horns because you have the canvas-covered bodies of the horses on the sand to prove it. He gives the feeling of his immortality, and, as you watch it, it becomes yours. Then when it belongs to both of you, he proves it with the sword.

We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated

Do you have other things like that to look forward to? Just everyday. I look forward to everyday.