More Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Never mistake motion for action.
Religion is the opium of the poor.
Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
