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9/22/11

ERNEST HEMINGWAY Quotes


"All you have to do is write one tue sentence." ~Ernest Hemingway

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." ~Ernest Hemingway on Drinking

“Being at sea, and the fight to catch a very big fish; the elation that comes from drinking or making love; a storm, and its feeling of danger — all can give you such an enjoyment of life that you are ashamed of being so happy when most people are not. Writing can give great happiness, too, when it goes the way you want, but is a different kind of happiness; although one is as important as the other.” ~Ernest Hemingway (letter to Ivan Kashkin 12 January, 1936)

“But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.” ~Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure." ~Ernest Hemingway

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.” ~Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination." ~Ernest Hemingway

"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” ~Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“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.” ~Ernest Hemingway 


"He definitely knows what's inside a man's brain, never mind his mind. 😁. But wait! I heard a man complained: I don't know what a woman wants. Now that's catchy!" ~Admin's quip 

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ~Ernest Hemingway

“I’m preparing my soul to write, like a fisherman preparing his tackle before going out to sea. If I don’t do this, and think only the fish matter, I’ll never achieve anything.” ~Ernest Hemingway, author of the classic The Old Man and the Sea

“I drink to make other people more interesting." ~Ernest Hemingway

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." ~Ernest Hemingway

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know." ~Ernest Hemingway

"If a writer stops observing, he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed." ~Ernest Hemingway 

"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." ~Ernest Hemingway

"In order to write about life first you must live it.” ~Ernest Hemingway

“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.”  ~Ernest Hemingway 

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ~Ernest Hemingway

"It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet." ~Ernest Hemingway

"Life is easy to manage when one 
has nothing to lose." ~Ernest Hemingway

"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual." ~Ernest Hemingway

“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.” ~Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea 

"Never mistake motion for action." ~Ernest Hemingway

“Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.”  ~Ernest Hemingway

"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." ~Ernest Hemingway

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." ~Ernest Hemingway

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you’re special too." ~Ernest Hemingway

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong in the broken places.” ~Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward some are strong at the broken places". ~Ernest Hemingway 

"The writer's job is to tell the truth." ~Ernest Hemingway

“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it.” ~Ernest Hemingway, A MOVEABLE FEAST"There is no friend as loyal as a book." ~Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." ~Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ~Ernest Hemingway, (born in 1899)

"To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years" ~Ernest Hemingway

"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough." ~Ernest Hemingway

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in." ~Ernest Hemingway

"We're stronger in the places that we've been broken." ~Ernest Hemingway

"When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say.  Most people never listen. Nordotheyobserve." ~Ernest Hemingway

“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?” ~Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"Write drunk; edit sober." ~Ernest Hemingway

"You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering." ~Ernest Hemingway 

"You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason." ~Ernest Hemingway, A MOVEABLE FEAST

"You lose it if you talk about it." ~Ernest Hemingway

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BIO

Ernest Miller Hemingway
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954

Born: 21 July 1899, Oak Park, IL, USA
Died: 2 July 1961, Ketchum, ID, USA

Residence at the time of the award: USA

Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."

Source: Nobel Prize

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