The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
Ernest Hemingway
Aging, Love, Reflection, Relationships, Observation
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“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?” Ernest Hemingway
Love, Nature, Morality, Reflection, Existence
Ernest Hemingway Love, Nature, Morality, Reflection, Existence“I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.” Ernest Hemingway
Loneliness, Connection, Reflection, Experience, Humanity
Ernest Hemingway Loneliness, Connection, Reflection, Experience, Humanity“Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.” Ernest Hemingway
Poetry, Reflection, Creativity, Madness, Art
Ernest Hemingway Poetry, Reflection, Creativity, Madness, Art“The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.” Ernest Hemingway
Biking, Competition, Relaxation, Reflection, Camaraderie
Ernest Hemingway Biking, Competition, Relaxation, Reflection, Camaraderie“Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.” Ernest Hemingway
Self-reflection, Vulnerability, Emotion, Experience, Communication
Ernest Hemingway Self-reflection, Vulnerability, Emotion, Experience, Communication“You’ll lose it, if you talk about it.” Ernest Hemingway
Communication, Emotion, Reflection, Secrets, Experience
Ernest Hemingway Communication, Emotion, Reflection, Secrets, Experience“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Ernest Hemingway
Literature, Influence, Heritage, American Culture, Reflection
Ernest Hemingway Literature, Influence, Heritage, American Culture, Reflection“A writer of fiction is really a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.” Ernest Hemingway
Fiction, Writing, Truth, Creativity, Reflection
Ernest Hemingway Fiction, Writing, Truth, Creativity, Reflection“The cat has complete emotional honesty – an attribute not often found in humans.” Ernest Hemingway
Cats, Honesty, Emotion, Reflection, Humanity
Ernest Hemingway Cats, Honesty, Emotion, Reflection, Humanity“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.” Ernest Hemingway
Luck, Practice, Reflection, Life, Success
Ernest Hemingway Luck, Practice, Reflection, Life, Success“All things truly wicked start from innocence.” Ernest Hemingway
Innocence, Corruption, Reflection, Humanity, Morality
Ernest Hemingway Innocence, Corruption, Reflection, Humanity, Morality“A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.” Ernest Hemingway
Wealth, Society, Irony, Reflection, Critique
Ernest Hemingway Wealth, Society, Irony, Reflection, Critique“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.” Ernest Hemingway
Mortality, Storytelling, Truth, Reflection, Life
Ernest Hemingway Mortality, Storytelling, Truth, Reflection, Life“We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man’s duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.” Ernest Hemingway
Growth, Understanding, Reflection, Duty, Life
Ernest Hemingway Growth, Understanding, Reflection, Duty, Life“I wanted to try this new drink: That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?” Ernest Hemingway
Exploration, Curiosity, Reflection, Experience, Life
Ernest Hemingway Exploration, Curiosity, Reflection, Experience, Life“The only kind of writing is rewriting.” Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Revision, Process, Creativity, Improvement
Ernest Hemingway Writing, Revision, Process, Creativity, Improvement“'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.” Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Creativity, Process, Reflection, Storytelling
Ernest Hemingway Writing, Creativity, Process, Reflection, Storytelling“Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.” Ernest Hemingway
Absurdity, Philosophy, Existence, Reflection, Nihilism
Ernest Hemingway Absurdity, Philosophy, Existence, Reflection, Nihilism