Ernest Hemingway
United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
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Everything kills everything else in some way.
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
A Farewell to Arms
Where a man feels at home, outside of where he�s born, is where he�s meant to go.
Green Hills of Africa
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.
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays