Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American writer

Lived from: 1899 - 1961

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 21 july 1899 Died: 2 july 1961

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  • I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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  • I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
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  • I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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  • If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 11
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  • 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 movable feast.
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  • It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
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  • It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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  • Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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  • Man is not made for defeat.
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  • My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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  • Never confuse motion with action.
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  • Never confuse movement with action.
    Papa Hemingway (1966)
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  • Never go back to your old front.
    Reynolds - Hemingway: The Homecoming
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  • Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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  • Never mistake motion for action.
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  • Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
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  • Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
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  • Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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  • Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
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  • 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.
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