Ernest Hemingway Farewell Quotations

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.