Inspiring Quotes by Ernest Hemingway - Page 2

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"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it"

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge"

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut"

"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor"

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary"

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason"

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book"

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated"

"You're beautiful, like a May fly"

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself"

"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up"

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first"

"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature"

"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"

"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green"

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture"

"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me"

"To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years"

"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward"

"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin"

"Courage is grace under pressure"

"There's no one thing that is true. They're all true"

"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"

"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts"

"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination"

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