Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quotes.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much pr

I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest Hemingway
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Ernest Hemingway
I drink to make other people more interesting.
Ernest Hemingway
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
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
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
All good books have one thing in common - they are true

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway