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Quotes from Islands in the Stream — Ernest Hemingway

1899–1961 United States

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Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

Any form of real betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

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.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

Get it straight. Your boy you lose. Love you lose. Honor has been gone for a long time. Duty you do.
Sure and what's your duty? What I said I'd do. And all the other things you said you'd do?

Islands in the Stream (1970)

'You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.'
'What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?'
'Write how you are but make it straight.'

Islands in the Stream (1970)

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernest Hemingway (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.