Ernest Hemingway
United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
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Where a man feels at home, outside of where he�s born, is where he�s meant to go.
Green Hills of Africa
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
A Moveable Feast
If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Write drunk; edit sober.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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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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