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 subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
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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