Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. Ernest Hemingway vineyards wine drinking All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. Ernest Hemingway farewell-to-arms common book I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. Ernest Hemingway health fitness order Anyone can be a fisherman in May. Ernest Hemingway fisherman may And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all. Ernest Hemingway forgiving ifs Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. Ernest Hemingway inspiring love travel There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway powerful friendship book I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else. Ernest Hemingway love-you Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. Ernest Hemingway hunting girl writing Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? Ernest Hemingway music sarcastic clever The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do. Ernest Hemingway writing life cheating Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride. Ernest Hemingway pride humility loss If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. Ernest Hemingway feelings writing water It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. Ernest Hemingway business writing thinking His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Ernest Hemingway butterfly dust wings That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway inventor invention way A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. Ernest Hemingway beautiful funny death There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me. Ernest Hemingway farewell-to-arms So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear. Ernest Hemingway died He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. Ernest Hemingway sail sitting thinking
