Quote

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

Ernest Hemingway

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemmingway
E. M. Hemmingway
E. Hemmingway
E. Hemingway
Ernest M. Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway
Longer
Tunes
Gone
Pray
Night
Master
Another
Serve
Thought
Praying
Shivering
Home
Devil
Danced
Way
Masters
Devils
Thoughts
Shorter

More quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Image
And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
Ernest Hemingway
Image
It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
Ernest Hemingway