There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Weitere Zitate von Ernest Hemingway
Zum Autor"You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.'Sure,' I said. 'I'd believe anything. Including nightmares.' 'What's the matter? Feel low?'Low as hell."
"Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job."
"Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else."
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
"I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers."
"It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining."