Ernest Hemingway
United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
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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
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
I may not be as strong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
The Old Man and the Sea
No one you love is ever truly lost.
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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