Ernest Hemingway

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.