My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Ernest Hemingway baroque-music architecture literature A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. Ernest Hemingway writing funny book Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. Ernest Hemingway jealous girl lonely Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. Ernest Hemingway writing wonderful trying Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? Ernest Hemingway longer-days old-man men There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway love relationship life Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action. Ernest Hemingway movement action want In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more. Ernest Hemingway war book fall No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things Ernest Hemingway real mean book I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. Ernest Hemingway powerful humorous witty All things truly wicked start from innocence. Ernest Hemingway wicked literature inspiring Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway pleasure vices writing Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. Ernest Hemingway risk age birthday All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. Ernest Hemingway pride done men Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. Ernest Hemingway crazy literature pounds God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her Ernest Hemingway god-knows falling-in-love mean I felt very lonely when they were all there. Ernest Hemingway felt lonely Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing. Ernest Hemingway wine appreciation civilization But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight. Ernest Hemingway breathing cities simple I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you. Ernest Hemingway farewell-to-arms want silly
