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Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes
“You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]”
“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
“That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.”
“Religion is the opium of the poor.”
“Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.”
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
“There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.”
“It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.”
“I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.”
“You don't have to destroy me. Do you?”
“He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.”
“So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.”
“I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?”
“I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.”
“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”
“Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.”