Quotes about Contentment, page 53

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about contentment

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment