Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway We wait always for something that does not come. Ernest Hemingway waiting doe Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey Ernest Hemingway kissing bottles girl Show the readers everything, tell them nothing. Ernest Hemingway reader shows you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. Ernest Hemingway lost-generation get-away moving Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use. Ernest Hemingway bitter use people No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. Ernest Hemingway cat liberty animal The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire. Ernest Hemingway gratitude grateful strong Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home. Ernest Hemingway home may art I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. Ernest Hemingway paris writing thinking All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. Ernest Hemingway freedom truth writing we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. Ernest Hemingway stars love romantic Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. Ernest Hemingway real sports funny The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it. Ernest Hemingway writing trying way All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well. Ernest Hemingway cowardice wells In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused. Ernest Hemingway hammers shining writing There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Ernest Hemingway learning time life How little we know of what there is to know. Ernest Hemingway tolls littles knowledge Everything is your fault if you're any damn good. Ernest Hemingway damn-good faults damn where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go. Ernest Hemingway born home men In order to write about life first you must live it. Ernest Hemingway writing life order
