Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) AUS author & Journalist
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist, born in the late 19th century in Paris. He was a very serious writer of his times who achieved a rare cult-like popularity during his lifetime. His exclusive way of writing was characterized by economy and understatement which had a significant influence on the development of 20th century fiction writing. The key characters or actors in his writings are typically “stubborn and stoic” males, who succumb to the testing situations of their lives.
Proud winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his novel THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, he also received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Many of his works are now considered classics in the American Literature Arena. |
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Some of the quotations by Ernest Miller Hemingway :
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
Ernest Hemingway
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
Ernest Hemingway
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest Hemingway
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the 2nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; a permanent ruin.
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Ernest Hemingway
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Ernest Hemingway
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway
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.
Ernest Hemingway
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Ernest Hemingway
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
Ernest Hemingway
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
Ernest Hemingway
Man is not made for defeat.
Ernest Hemingway
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Ernest Hemingway
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Ernest Hemingway
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
Ernest Hemingway
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
Ernest Hemingway
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
Ernest Hemingway
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest Hemingway
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest Hemingway
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