When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous. Ernest Hemingway More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway More Quotes From Ernest Hemingway Everyone has his own conscience, Ernest Hemingway function wisdom should It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea. Ernest Hemingway virtue sea Good writing is good conversation, only more so. Ernest Hemingway good-conversation writing conversation It's a town you come to for a short time. Ernest Hemingway short-time towns new-york Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all. Ernest Hemingway each-day comfort writing I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together Ernest Hemingway simple together people Write as well as you can and finish what you start. Ernest Hemingway wells writing There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Ernest Hemingway spain get-up night Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out. Ernest Hemingway stories sometimes ideas You'll lose it, if you talk about it Ernest Hemingway loses ifs Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so. Ernest Hemingway men thinking You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. Ernest Hemingway immortality alive giving How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them. Ernest Hemingway quality judging book As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen. Ernest Hemingway awards regret beautiful All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons. Ernest Hemingway contact drinking feelings When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. Ernest Hemingway funny-sarcastic flames ideas Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ. Ernest Hemingway oil wine real When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me. Ernest Hemingway saws bed doors But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. Ernest Hemingway light rain doors And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises. Ernest Hemingway treats promise
