Ernest Hemingway
United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: worry never fixes anything.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
A Farewell to Arms
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
A Farewell to Arms
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
The Sun Also Rises
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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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