By-Line Quotes

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“All the passengers were crowded over on the landside of the ship, watching through the narrow windows the careened hulk of a freighter, visibly damaged by shellfire, which had driven ashore to beach her cargo. She lay aground, looking against the sand in that clear water like a whale with smokestacks that had come to the beach to die.”
― Ernest Hemingway, By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“You can bet on Franco, or Mussolini, or Hitler, if you want. But my money goes on Hipolito.”
― Ernest Hemingway, By-Line꞉ Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“The spectacle of its governing is at present more comic than tragic; but the tragedy is very close.”
― Ernest Hemingway, By-Line꞉ Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“it is much easier to be the opposition to a government than to run the government yourself.”
― Ernest Hemingway, By-Line꞉ Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades