Ernest Hemingway

United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist

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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
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

The Sun Also Rises
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
There is not always an explanation for everything.

A Farewell to Arms
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.
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

A Farewell to Arms
To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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