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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

1899–1961 United States

Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.

United States
Essayists
Journalists
Memoirists
Nobel laureates

Also known as: Ernest Miller Hemingway, Ernest hemmingway, Hemingway, Hemingway, Ernest, Hemingway, Ernest Millar

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207 quotes

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Introduction to Men at War (1942)

Remember this too: all bad writers are in love with the epic.

Death in the Afternoon (1932)

It is always a mistake to know an author.

Death in the Afternoon (1932)

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Islands in the Stream (1970)

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada.

And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

The Dangerous Summer (1985)

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth: Hemingstein's Law on the Dynamics of Dying.

Papa Hemingway (1966)

For our dead are a part of the earth of Spain now and the earth of Spain can never die.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Only three things in my life I've really liked to do - hunt, write and make love.

Papa Hemingway (1966)

But waiting for a messiah is a long business and you get many fake ones.

Death in the Afternoon (1932)

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Papa Hemingway (1966)

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

Papa Hemingway (1966)

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

True at First Light (1999)

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Death in the Afternoon (1932)

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

A Moveable Feast (1964)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernest Hemingway (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.