Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things Ernest Hemingway welcome certain radio Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. Ernest Hemingway being-positive use negative 'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.' Ernest Hemingway safety risk wife I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.) Ernest Hemingway writing trying world Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech. Ernest Hemingway illusion speech real Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. Ernest Hemingway born writing helping I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. Ernest Hemingway sacrifice chicago meat It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home. Ernest Hemingway home war believe Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. Ernest Hemingway names rivers numbers A good life is not measured by any biblical span. Ernest Hemingway good-life biblical life He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement. Ernest Hemingway judgement loyalty beautiful The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits. Ernest Hemingway time men people How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra! Ernest Hemingway sun water travel I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. Ernest Hemingway principles writing trying You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Ernest Hemingway brother beautiful men Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish. Ernest Hemingway fishing sea lakes French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. Ernest Hemingway diplomacy bureaucracy language Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness. Ernest Hemingway clumsy symbols writing Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder. Ernest Hemingway powder human-condition differences You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight. Ernest Hemingway simple writing thinking
