Ernest Hemingway Top 10 Quotes


10

Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms, 1929)

9

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

Ernest Hemingway

8

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)

7

Never confuse movement with action.

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

6

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway (The Garden of Eden, 1946-1961)

5

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)

4

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

Ernest Hemingway (Quoted in Hemingway on War, 2003)

3

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway (The New Yorker Interview, 1929)

2

All thinking men are atheists.

Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms, 1929)

1

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway (New York Journal-American, 1961)

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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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