| 3251 |
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3250 |
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3249 |
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3248 |
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3247 |
Write hard and clear about what hurts. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3246 |
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3245 |
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they lov |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3244 |
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3243 |
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Rom |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3242 |
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3241 |
Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3240 |
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; somet |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3239 |
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3238 |
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3237 |
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3236 |
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3235 |
And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes
And the rain won't make any differenc |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3234 |
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3232 |
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfl |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3231 |
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3230 |
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3229 |
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3228 |
But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3227 |
In order to write about life first you must live it. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3226 |
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at nig |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3225 |
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detect |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3224 |
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-st |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3223 |
Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3222 |
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and wha |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3221 |
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3220 |
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3219 |
But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeat |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3218 |
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3217 |
Isn't it pretty to think so. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3216 |
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, m |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3215 |
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3214 |
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves f |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3213 |
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simple |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3212 |
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3211 |
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3209 |
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3208 |
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3207 |
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that yo |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3206 |
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3204 |
Courage is grace under pressure. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3202 |
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to brea |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3201 |
Never confuse movement with action. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3200 |
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especial |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3199 |
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and h |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3198 |
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3197 |
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is be |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3196 |
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3195 |
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3193 |
The first draft of anything is shit. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3192 |
Write drunk; edit sober. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3191 |
I drink to make other people more interesting. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3190 |
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your m |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3189 |
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3188 |
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 3187 |
Women and elephants never forget. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3186 |
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come tog |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3185 |
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3184 |
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutc |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3181 |
So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer af |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3180 |
If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my h |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3179 |
Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tom |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3178 |
Time doth flit; oh shit. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3177 |
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would i |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3175 |
There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3173 |
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3171 |
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3170 |
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3168 |
I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3167 |
And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3166 |
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3165 |
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like m |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3164 |
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3163 |
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3161 |
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3160 |
I hate writing, I love having written. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3159 |
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, i |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3158 |
Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3157 |
If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall st |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3156 |
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3155 |
What fresh hell is this? |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3154 |
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3153 |
I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the tabl |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3148 |
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great f |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3147 |
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3146 |
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3145 |
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity. |
Dorothy Parker |
| 3144 |
We are asleep until we fall in Love! |
Leo Tolstoy |
| 3143 |
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not f |
Leo Tolstoy |
| 3142 |
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and da |
Leo Tolstoy |
| 3141 |
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and |
Leo Tolstoy |
| 3140 |
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, thou |
Leo Tolstoy |
| 3139 |
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally b |
Leo Tolstoy |
| 3138 |
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. |
Leo Tolstoy |
| 3137 |
Love those you hate you. |
Leo Tolstoy |
| 3136 |
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has as |
Leo Tolstoy |