Quote by Ernest Hemingway

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.

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two ba

Summary

This quote, attributed to author Earnest Hemingway, offers a glimpse into his ideal version of heaven. It reflects Hemingway's desire for duality in his personal life - one house symbolizes a devoted, monogamous relationship with his wife and children, while the other represents his longing for multiple simultaneous affairs. The quote suggests a complex and paradoxical vision of personal happiness, where profound love and companionship coexist with a hedonistic desire for multiple romantic partners. Overall, it speaks to Hemingway's idiosyncrasies and the contrasting desires he held within his own concept of paradise.

Topics

Heaven

By Ernest Hemingway

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and

O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Conservation

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect lib

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Louis D. Brandeis

Experience

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Robert Brustein

Theater

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Chris

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

Faith

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on th

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Christopher Lasch

Family

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is no

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Love

This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slav

This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

Be happy with who you are and respect not only others but yo

Be happy with who you are and respect not only others but your own opinions and beliefs as well, that way we can all live along peacefully.

Isabella Irini Poretsis

Happiness Love Respect Peace Understanding World Inspirational Beliefs Soul Live Opinions Accommodation

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memor

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Imagination Memory Intelligence

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Marcus Aurelius

Life

Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative

Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.

Wisdom Life Truth