Ernest Hemingway
United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
The Old Man and the Sea
But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
All good books have one thing in common: they are truer than if they had really happened.
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be.
A Moveable Feast
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
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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."
Essays
Essays