You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quotes

To kill them teaches nothing,” Anselmo said. “You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred. Prison is nothing. Prison only makes hatred.

— Ernest Hemingway

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

— Ernest Hemingway

Maybe I have had all my life in three days, he thought. If that’s true I wish we would have spent the last night differently. But last nights are never any good. Last nothings are any good.

— Ernest Hemingway

Mary’s extremely nice cousin had given us two small square sacking-covered pillows filled with balsam needles. I always slept with mine under my neck or, if I slept on my side, with my ear on it. It was the smell of Michigan when I was a boy and I wished I could have had a sweet-grass basket to keep it in when we traveled and to have under the mosquito net in the bed at night.

— Ernest Hemingway

But you were living in a milieu of criminals and perverts.” I did not want to argue that, although I thought that I had lived in a world as it was and there were all kinds of people in it and I tried to understand them, although some of them I could not like and some I still hated.

— Ernest Hemingway

YOU DO NOT know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly.

— Ernest Hemingway

Tengo miedo de morir.

— Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms To.

— Ernest Hemingway

This government has had much money. Much gold. They will give nothing to their friends. You are a friend. All right. You will do it for nothing and should not be rewarded. But to people representing an important firm or a country which is not friendly but must be influenced – to such people they give much. It is very interesting when you follow it closely.

— Ernest Hemingway

Just now, I am very busy on a study of Calvo Sotelo. He was a very good fascist; a true Spanish fascist. Franco and these other people are not. I have been studying all of Sotelo’s writing and speeches. He was very intelligent and it was very intelligent that he was killed.

— Ernest Hemingway

Do people catch a cunning dear without the dogs?

— Ernest Hemingway

The Purple Land.

— Ernest Hemingway

Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.

— Ernest Hemingway

You were fighting against exactly what you were doing and being forced into doing to have any chance of winning.

— Ernest Hemingway

Kill him, yes. Swear him, yes. But don’t wound him.

— Ernest Hemingway

The Colonel’s Lady and Judy O’Grady are Lesbians under their skin.

— Ernest Hemingway

Every one needs to talk to some one,” the woman said. “Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.” “We are not alone. We are all together.

— Ernest Hemingway

Que cosan las rajas, yo entro por los ojos.

— Ernest Hemingway

We could go into the hotel and register as Doctor and Mrs. Livingstone I presume, he thought.

— Ernest Hemingway

Your nationalities do not show when you are dead.

— Ernest Hemingway
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