Ernest Hemingway

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

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People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

A Moveable Feast
If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

For Whom the Bell Tolls
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again...

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Write drunk; edit sober.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
War is not won by victory.

A Farewell to Arms
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

The Old Man and the Sea
But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
All good books have one thing in common: they are truer than if they had really happened.
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