Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

It's funny, I said. It's very funny. And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love. Do you think so? her eyes looked flat again. I don't mean fun that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling. No, she said. I think it's hell on earth.

I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Please understand and love me.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.