There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it. Ernest Hemingway insomnia sleep lying Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway stronger broken heart My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken. Ernest Hemingway broken heart way No one ever stopped when they were winning. Ernest Hemingway winning The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there. Ernest Hemingway mirrors drinking ideas Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar. Ernest Hemingway bad-ass bars tables [Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race! Ernest Hemingway horse giving-up race Love is infinitely more endurable than hate. Ernest Hemingway hate love-is Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better. Ernest Hemingway feel-better writing feels Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you. Ernest Hemingway powerful dancing men Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. Ernest Hemingway creation six world You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that. Ernest Hemingway enough writing people I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be Ernest Hemingway generations would-be lost The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges. Ernest Hemingway blur clear world I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering. Ernest Hemingway writing dirty school The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand. Ernest Hemingway judging jobs I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind. Ernest Hemingway behinds said men No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart. Ernest Hemingway smart decision heart Work could cure almost anything Ernest Hemingway cures I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better. Ernest Hemingway crazy two thinking
