poeticromance

Earnest Hemingway is my favorite author so i though i would post some of the quotes that get me through. I also posted some that i just like

Definition of courage: 'Grace under pressure.'
- Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and whatI feel in the best and simplest way.
- Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)

Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)American novelist and short-story writer

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'slife to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
- Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and asall-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason arepreferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
- Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
- Ernest Hemingway

What is moral is what you feel good after.
- Ernest Hemingway

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. Thatwill teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, norhow justified, is not a crime.
- Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
- Ernest Hemingway

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- Ernest Hemingway

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunkto spend time with his fools
- Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered acafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took outa notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
- Ernest Hemingway