February 02, 2006

Miscellaneous quotes from Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
--E. Hemingway

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
--E. Hemingway

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
--E. Hemingway

"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
--E. Hemingway

"Never mistake motion for action."
--E. Hemingway

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
--E. Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger
at the broken places."
--E. Hemingway

"'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
--E. Hemingway

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
--E. Hemingway

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
--E. Hemingway

"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best -- make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
--E. Hemingway

No comments: