Ernest Hemingway

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

Quotes



Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

Death in the Afternoon
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Death in the Afternoon
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Death in the Afternoon
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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
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