Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which included his iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations.
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| There is no friend as loyal as a book. ― Ernest Hemingway |
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes and Sayings
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
The first draft of anything is shit.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Courage is grace under pressure.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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| There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ― Ernest Hemingway |
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
All thinking men are atheists.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Never confuse movement with action.
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
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| Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ― Ernest Hemingway |
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
And you'll always love me won't you? Yes. And the rain won't make any difference? No
We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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.
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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.
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
I am always in love.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.
I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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.
Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
No one you love is ever truly lost.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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.
He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.
It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
There isnt always an explanation for everything.
I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
For what are we born if not to aid one another?
"Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad."
Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
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.
Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.
You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together.
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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