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 More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it. Ernest Hemingway important paper writing The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. Ernest Hemingway ruins political war Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life. Ernest Hemingway darling be-good strange I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. Ernest Hemingway arms farewell writing I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me. Ernest Hemingway farewell-to-arms broken brave Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do. Ernest Hemingway girlfriend nice wine All bad writers are in love with the epic. Ernest Hemingway epic writing The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. Ernest Hemingway clouds wind men 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. Ernest Hemingway found-happiness intelligent lying In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken. Ernest Hemingway running morning beach I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before. Ernest Hemingway i-loved-you saws today And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered. Ernest Hemingway body light age 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 afternoon feel-good inspiring My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway inspirational-life writing kids The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Ernest Hemingway writing There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. Ernest Hemingway motor-racing games sports Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway listening people I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. Ernest Hemingway really-living life-is thinking I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg. Ernest Hemingway finance trying firsts Religion is the opium of the poor. Ernest Hemingway opium poor