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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

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

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”

“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.”

“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”

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

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

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

“Never confuse movement with action.”

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

“That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.”

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

“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”

“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”

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On drink (from The Guardian),

Hemingway champagne
Also called Death in the Afternoon, this was the drink Ernest Hemingway recommended when invited to contribute to a 1935 cocktail book. His instruction: “Pour one jigger absinthe into a champagne glass. Add iced champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly.” Other cocktails invented by the dipsomaniac novelist include Death in the Gulf Stream (a mix of gin, lime and bitters), the Hemingway daiquiri (made with grapefruit juice instead of sugar and with a splash of maraschino liqueur) and the Hemingway Hammer (Bacardi and various fruit liqueurs)

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On his daily routine (from DailyRoutines)

INTERVIEWER
Could you say something of this process? When do you work? Do you keep to a strict schedule?

HEMINGWAY
When I am working on a book or story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and you know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

The Paris Review, Issue 18, 1958

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