Hunger is good discipline. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them. Ernest Hemingway innocent crazy I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it. Ernest Hemingway used silence needs When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. Ernest Hemingway hunting flying bird You're beautiful, like a May fly. Ernest Hemingway you-re-beautiful may beautiful This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer. Ernest Hemingway drinking beer food Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. Ernest Hemingway humorous drinking funny The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes. Ernest Hemingway eye sun men Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore. Ernest Hemingway too-much want thinking When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her. Ernest Hemingway saws track wife In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist. Ernest Hemingway labels atheist men I was blown up while we were eating cheese. Ernest Hemingway farewell-to-arms cheese arms All stories, if continued far enough, end in death. Ernest Hemingway suicide stories death I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. Ernest Hemingway modesty writing thinking There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. Ernest Hemingway tolls literature inspiring I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink. Ernest Hemingway patriotic hurt writing The only kind of writing is rewriting. Ernest Hemingway rewriting kind writing I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. Ernest Hemingway moveable-feast loneliness ends The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone. Ernest Hemingway important writing time You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity. Ernest Hemingway wake-up bed mouths So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway life-and-death feel-good feelings