Ernest Hemingway Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feet, Snow, House

  "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938)

• To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Children, Two

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

• The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sea, Land, House

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

• Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dark, Night, Hunting

• It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

  Ernest Hemingway

  House, Hunger, Hell

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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