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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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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.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
To be a successful father ... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Papa Hemingway (1966)
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
For Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.
But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.
One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war.
Papa Hemingway (1966)
'Listen Jake... don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you are not taking advantage of it?'
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown.
Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
Any form of real betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.
Islands in the Stream (1970)
One cat just leads to another.
The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
Islands in the Stream (1970)
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Co (1974)
The age demanded that we dance
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