Ernest Hemingway
United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle�s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.
The Old Man and the Sea
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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