Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the great American novelists of the 20th century, and is known for his work like A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.

50. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

49. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

48. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

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

46. “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

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45. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

44. “The first draft of anything is shit.”

43. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

42. “I drink to make other people more interesting.”

41. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

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40. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

39. “All thinking men are atheists.”

38. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

37. “Courage is grace under pressure.”

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

35. “Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

34. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

33. “Never confuse movement with action.”

32. “There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”

31. “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

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30. “Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.”

29. “But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ”

28. “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

27. “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

26. “I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”

25. “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

24. “You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

23. “Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

22. “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

21. “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.”

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20. “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

19. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”

18. “I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”

17. “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.”

16. “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”

15. “But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

14. “Write hard and clear about what hurts. ”

13. “You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”

12. “It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

11. “Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

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10. “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.”

9. “When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

8. “Isn't it pretty to think so.”

7. “All things truly wicked start from innocence.”

6. “No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

5. “If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

4. “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

3. “It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

2. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”

1. “After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.”

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