Ernest Hemingway
United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
A Farewell to Arms
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
A Farewell to Arms
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
The Sun Also Rises
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.
Death in the Afternoon
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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
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."
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