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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  • Prison is nothing. Prison only makes hatred.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
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  • Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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  • Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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  • Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
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  • Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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  • That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best -make it all up -but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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  • That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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  • The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
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  • The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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  • The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as the other.
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  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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  • The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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  • The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
    Papa Hemingway (1966) Pt. 2, Ch. 6
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  • The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
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  • The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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  • The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
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  • There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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  • There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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  • 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.
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  • There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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