Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Morning

Quotes about: Morning

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

• In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Morning, Lying

  "True at First Light" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 10), 1999.

• In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Beach, Morning

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

• There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Wall, Hangover

  "Complete Poems".

• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Morning, Book

• In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Spring, Rain

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

• I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Safari, Not Happy

  "True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir".

• I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Thinking, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

• Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Coffee, Cutting

  Ernest Hemingway (2007). “The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

• A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Coffee, Wine

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.139, Hamilton Books

• In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Father, Lakes

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Work, Book

  "Daily routines of Nikola Tesla, Mozart, Hemingway, Woody Allen, Maya Angelou, van Gogh, Stephen King, and Nabokov" by Thomas Oppong, www.cnbc.com. February 7, 2017.

• I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, War, Writing

• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Book, Writing

  Source: www.mhpbooks.com

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