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b70af65 That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things. Ernest Hemingway
5b33430 I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. Then I went back to writing and I entered far into the story and was lost in it. I was writing it now and it was not writing itself and I did not look up nor know anything about the time nor think where I was nor order any more rum St.. Ernest Hemingway
eea81e5 Maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan. I did not know it was too early for that because I did not know Paris well enough. But that was how it worked out eventually. Anyway we would go if my wife wanted to, and I finished the oysters and the wine and paid my score in the cafe and made it the shortest way back up the Montagne Ste. Genevieve through the rain, that was now only local weather an.. Ernest Hemingway
74c1ea8 My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly and we had loved the big studio with the great paintings. It was like one of the best rooms in the finest museum except there was a big fireplace and it was warm and comfortable and they gave you good things to eat and tea and natural distilled liqueurs made from purple plums, yellow plums or wild raspberries. These were frag.. Ernest Hemingway
1a38d24 Ch`e?s karogh t`oghnel, or mard hangist merhni, petk` e anpayman pitakne?r kpts`nes: Inch` ogowt, or indz vakhkot es anvanowm: Ernest Hemingway
ea61e09 Should I pity so and so?" I asked. I gave his name but he delights so in giving it himself that I feel there is no need to give it for him. "No. He's vicious. He's a corrupter and he's truly vicious." "But he's supposed to be a good writer." "He's not," she said. "He's just a showman and he corrupts for the pleasure of corruption and he leads people into other vicious practices as well." Ernest Hemingway
4707982 How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them. Ernest Hemingway
bf26d4d Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again. killing murder face Ernest Hemingway
a2bc956 Let's walk down the rue de Seine and look in all the galleries and in the windows of the shops.' 'Sure. We can walk anywhere and we can stop at some new cafe where we don't know anyone and nobody knows us and have a drink.' 'We can have two drinks.' 'Then we can eat somewhere.' 'No. Don't forget we have to pay the library.' 'We'll come home and eat here and we'll have a lovely meal and drink Beaune from the co-operative you can se.. Ernest Hemingway
401e5a1 E bom que nao tenhamos de tentar matar a lua, o sol ou as estrelas. Ja e ruim viver no mar e ter de matar os nossos verdadeiros irmaos Ernest Hemingway
eb0e6ed The rifle and the pistol are still the equalizer when one man is more of a man than another, and if...he is really smart...he will get a permit to carry one and then drop around to Abercrombie and Fitch and buy himself a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, '''Woodsman model''', with a five-inch barrel and a box of shells. I advise him to get lubricated hollow points to avoid jams and to ensure a nice expansion on the bullet. He might even ge.. pistols target-practice hemingway Ernest Hemingway
4dc1c08 ykh mrd. ykh mrd tnh nmytwnd. hych mrdy tnh nmytwnd. frq nmykhnd chhjwr. ykh mrd tnh hych mhlt khwhr j***y ndrd. Ernest Hemingway
0f8735f It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945 writing-process Ernest Hemingway
2642850 You know. Don't pretend you don't know. Ernest Hemingway
c201d6f The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how some one had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Julian. He thought they were a special glamourous race and when he found they w.. Ernest Hemingway
dac286d I loved the country so that I was happy as you are after you have been with a woman that you really love, when, empty, you feel it welling up again and there it is and you can never have it all and yet what there is, now, you can have, and you want more and more, to have, and be, and live in, to possess now again for always, for that long, sudden-ended always; making time stand still, sometimes so very still that afterwards you wait to hear.. Ernest Hemingway
da2ad6d You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a middle-aged woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?" "I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed," he said. "Yes. That's the good destruction. That's the way we're made to be destroyed." Ernest Hemingway
7c26439 am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm. Ernest Hemingway
82d88d6 You know the only thing I've ever lost is curiosity," he said to her. "You've never lost anything.You're the most complete man I've ever known" -- Ernest Hemingway
a6a951f The Purdey was not a Purdey but a straight-stocked long-barreled Scott live-pigeon full choke in both barrels thai I had bought from a lot of shotguns a dealer had brought down fron Udine to the Kechlers' villa in Codroipo. hemingway Ernest Hemingway
ce4e801 Ma arvasin, et olin juba koige eest maksnud. Mitte nii nagu naised, kes aina maksavad ja maksavad ja maksavad. Ei mingit tasu ja karistuse pohimotet. Lihtne vaartuste vahetus. Sa annad midagi ara ja saad midagi vastu. Voi sa tootad millegi eest. Nii voi teisiti maksad sa koige eest, mis midagi vaart on. Olin lunastanud endale elus palju asju, mis mulle meeldisid, ja selleparast olin elust monu tundnud. Asjade eest, mis sulle roomu valmistav.. Ernest Hemingway
3edd71b Kogato dvama dushi se obichat, kogato te sa shchastlivi i veseli, i ediniiat ot tiakh ili dvamata rabotiat i praviat neshcho naistina khubavo, te privlichat khorata t'i silno, kakto morskiiat far privlicha preletnite ptitsi noshchem. Ako dvaminata mozhekha da b'dat t'i zdravo izgradeni kato morski far, bikha postradali samo ptitsite. Ernest Hemingway
46ad375 They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations. law Ernest Hemingway
ea82718 How every one he had slept with had only made him miss her more Ernest Hemingway
3c87fb9 The madness all over Ernest Hemingway
389dd1e The one experience that he had never had he was not going to spoil now. He probably would. You spoiled everything. But perhaps he wouldn't Ernest Hemingway
84fd790 No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me. Ernest Hemingway
63f3708 They all wanted something that i did not want and i would get it without wanting it, if it worked. Ernest Hemingway
bf3ae30 It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy a great success at it for a time. Ernest Hemingway
fa556bf They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him. "Ay," the old man said. "Galanos. Come on galanos." -- Ernest Hemingway
9ff8588 Her lips an island in the sudden white sea of pain that came in a shining, unbearable, rising, blinding wave and swept him clean. Ernest Hemingway
b680c76 All you get in this life is a point of view. Ernest Hemingway
0efb83a She had been married to a man who had never bored her and these people bored her very much Ernest Hemingway
f1b1e42 The Age Demand The age demanded that we sing And cut away our tongue. The age demanded that we flow And hammered in the bung. The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. Ernest Hemingway
4499a91 THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO It is necessary to be very strong against something Ernest Hemingway
c8f5533 The town was very nice and our house was very fine. The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way. Ernest Hemingway
059dc43 I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck. Ernest Hemingway
9cee400 Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of, and you welcome them and resent the new things Ernest Hemingway
21235c3 The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended. Ernest Hemingway
7a94ec9 All the passengers were crowded over on the landside of the ship, watching through the narrow windows the careened hulk of a freighter, visibly damaged by shellfire, which had driven ashore to beach her cargo. She lay aground, looking against the sand in that clear water like a whale with smokestacks that had come to the beach to die. Ernest Hemingway
b4d9b34 The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed. Ernest Hemingway
b5b29da It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not. Ernest Hemingway
19e6a34 But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. Ernest Hemingway
31253f2 He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky. Ernest Hemingway