Ernest Hemingway

Blood is thicker than water," The young man said As he knifed his friend For a drooling old bitch And a house full of lies. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#blood-is-thicker-than-water #family #friendship #murder #family

You will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#horror #humor-inspirational #inspirational

I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life #wine #life

Life is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets to crow on it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life-is-hard #life-sucks #life

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#home

Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#the-light-of-the-world #winner-take-nothing #love

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing #death

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#new #write #writer #men

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death

No. Have it here where it is quiet." "You and your quiet", said Brett. "What is it men feel about quiet?" "We like it," said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#noise #quiet #men