Ernest Hemingway

Look at things _x000D_ and listen _x000D_ and feel.

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."_x000D_ _x000D_ "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"_x000D_ _x000D_ "Yes. I want to ruin you."_x000D_ _x000D_ "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

Everyone has his own conscience,_x000D_ and there should be no rules about_x000D_ how a conscience should function.

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.