Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

Fish, he said softly, aloud, I'll stay with you until I am dead.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Are you a communist? No I am an anti-fascist For a long time? Since I have understood fascism.