Ernest Hemingway

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

They arrested us after breakfast.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.