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 HemingwayThe echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
Ernest HemingwayListen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
Ernest HemingwayAlways do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest HemingwayI decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
Ernest HemingwayNow a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.
Ernest Hemingway