Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• The only decent bone in her body was mine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Body, Bones, Decent

• The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Gratitude, Strong, Grateful

• The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Writing, Important

• For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Long Ago, Feet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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