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Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
American author
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 and was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life.
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- "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."
- Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ch. 34
- "Grace under pressure"
- Source: Hemingways definition of "guts" as recounted in the New Yorker (November 30, 1929)
- "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn".
- Source: Green Hills of Africa (1935) ch. 1
- Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called by the Masai "Ngàje Ngài," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
- Source: The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1938)
- "If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."
- Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) The title of this work is from Meditation 17 by John Donne
- "For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them."
- Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- "If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were recieved where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?"
- Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- "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. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way."
- Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
- Source: The Old Man and The Sea (1952)
- "That tomorrow should come and that I should be there."
- Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."
- Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- "A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."
- Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 16
- "Never confuse movement with action."
- Source: quoted in A. E. Hotchner's Papa Hemingway (1966) ch. 1
- "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."
- Source: epigraph to Hemingway's A Moveable Feast (1964)
- "But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better."
- Source: quoted in Lillian Ross's profile of Hemingway, which first appeared in the New Yorker (May 13, 1950). In 1961, the profile was published as a short book titled Portrait of Hemingway.
- "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" (refering to William Faulkner)
- Source: quoted in A. E. Hotchner's Papa Hemingway (1966) ch. 4
- No one thing is true. It's all true.
- Source: "Islands in the Stream"
- I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone
Attributed
- “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.”
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