Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 11 | Just Great DataBase

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyways. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

What kind of a hand is that,' he said. 'Cramp then if you want. Make yourself into a claw. It will do you no good.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.

Fight them, he said. I’ll fight them until I die.

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to ignore but to despise whatever bad ending there could be. This quality was destroyed by too much responsibility for others or the necessity of undertaking something ill planned or badly conceived. For in such things the bad ending, failure, could not be ignored. It was not simply a possibility of harm to one's self, which could be ignored. He knew he himself was nothing, and he knew death was nothing. He knew that truly, as truly as he knew anything. In the last few days he had learned that he himself, with another person, could be everything. But inside himself he knew that this was the exception. That we have had, he thought. In that I have been most fortunate. That was given to me, perhaps, because I never asked for it. That cannot be taken away nor lost. But that is over and done with now on this morning and what there is to do now is our work.

Half fish," he said. "Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But we have killed many sharks, you and I, and ruined many others. How many did you ever kill, old fish? You do not have that spear on your head for nothing.

Oh, don't go to hell, I said. Stick around. We're just starting lunch.

Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog...all right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

The fish is my friend too," he said aloud. "I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes. Sometimes less. Sometimes a good deal less.