Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Hemingway Quote: Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today...
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Ernest Hemingway

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway (Quoted in Hemingway on War, 2003)

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.

Ernest Hemingway (Paris Review Interview, 1958)

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Ernest Hemingway

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway (Quoted by Marlene Dietrich in Papa Hemingway, 1966)

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Ernest Hemingway (Letter to his family, 1918)

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. 

Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940)

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.

Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon, 1932)

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway (Quoted in Across the River and Into the Trees, 1967)

There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

Ernest Hemingway (Letter to Bernard Berenson, 1952)

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway (Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1954)

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms, 1929)

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.

Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon, 1932)

Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.

Ernest Hemingway (On the Blue Water - Esquire, 1936)

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast, 1964)

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms, 1929)

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Ernest Hemingway (Esquire, 1934)

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Ernest Hemingway (Letter, 1952)

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Ernest Hemingway Biography

Born: July 21, 1899
Died: July 2, 1961

Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist. He is mostly known for his unique and distinctive writing style. Today he is widely regarded as a major American literary figure.

Notable Works

Indian Camp (1926)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
The Old Man and the Sea (1951)
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