Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
Interpretation
Seize the moment and enjoy life's pleasures without hesitation.
This quote by Ernest Hemingway encourages spontaneity and the appreciation of life's fleeting moments. It suggests that one should not procrastinate when it comes to experiencing joy, whether through intimate connections or the simple pleasures of good whiskey, as these opportunities may not always present themselves again.
In practice
During a speech about making the most of life at a graduation ceremony.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.
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