Ernest Hemingway

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#courage #glory #honor #courage

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #humor #poets #terza-rima #death

Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#family

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#sex #love

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#love #jealousy

But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#love

She looked fresh and young and very beautiful. I thought I had never seen any one so beautiful. ‘Hello,’ I said. When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#beauty #love #beauty

For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#tourist #death

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life #literature #philosophy #writing #death