I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. Ernest Hemingway feethousesnow The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans. Ernest Hemingway catemotionalhonesty The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire. Ernest Hemingway echoesdyingbeauty I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. Ernest Hemingway theeart If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. Ernest Hemingway happy-valentines-dayvalentinetree As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. Ernest Hemingway winestrongfood You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you? Ernest Hemingway another-girlfarewell-to-armsgirl You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive. Ernest Hemingway storiesfeelingstrying Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. Ernest Hemingway doewritingthinking To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable. Ernest Hemingway nicetogethermean A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine. Ernest Hemingway infinitewinemay If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. Ernest Hemingway ifswriting If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Ernest Hemingway menlifetravel If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. Ernest Hemingway finisheddetailswriting 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. Ernest Hemingway parisgracestories Life is pain, so live it up while you can. Ernest Hemingway live-it-uppainlife For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there. Ernest Hemingway long-agohorsefeet Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Ernest Hemingway cowardiceimaginationcourage We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes. Ernest Hemingway menwarcountry A cat has absolute honesty. Ernest Hemingway absolutescathonesty
