Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway (103)

Birth:	21st July, 1899
Death:	2nd July, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

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Births

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• 1960 - Eric Brown
• 1930 - Sonia Rykiel
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• There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sometimes, Rock, Writing

• It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Tags in Learn, Writing
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  There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Down, Nothing, Writing

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

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Tags in Self, Aim, Writing
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  A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Emotional, Feelings

• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Man
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  All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Truest, Write, Writing
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  The first draft of anything is shit.

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Tags in First, Shit, Writing

• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Trust, Truth
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  All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well which is the same thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Tags in Loving, Cowardice
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  No one you love is ever truly lost.

  Ernest Hemingway

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

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Never mistake motion for action.

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Tags in Motion, Action

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Die

• Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Tags in Columnist, Personal

• I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in God

  Tags in Critics

• If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer, Dignity

• The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation, Opportunities

• Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Art, Death