Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.

Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.