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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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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.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
There is no remedy for anything in life. Death is a sovereign remedy for all misfortunes.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
'Please love me David the way I am. Please understand and love me.'
The Garden of Eden (1986)
However you make your living is where your talent lies.
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
Notes on the Next War (1935)
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
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.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
A Moveable Feast (1964)
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
'But are there not many Fascists in your country?'
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
You never understand anybody that loves you.
Islands in the Stream (1970)
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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