Эрнест Хемингуэй: Цитаты на английском языке

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”

“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.”

“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.”

“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.”

“Never confuse movement with action.”

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”