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Ernest Miller Hemingway

American · 1899-1961 · 14 quotes

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Ernest Miller Hemingway

American · 1899–1961

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Ernest Hemingway was the American novelist and short-story writer who, in the 1920s and 1930s, developed a prose style — plain, declarative, iceberg-like in what it withheld — that changed what fiction in English could do. Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, he served as an ambulance driver in Italy in the First World War, worked as a journalist in Paris, and published The Sun Also Rises in 1926 to immediate recognition. A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, are the major novels. His later life was marked by accidents, illness, and the collapse of his health, and he killed himself in Idaho in 1961. The best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them; I like to listen — most people never listen: the aphorisms of someone who understood that most good writing is about paying attention.

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Collected Quotes

All quotes by Ernest Miller Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth

In order to write about life, first you must live it.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

The shortest answer is doing the thing

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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love

I drink to make other people more interesting

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing

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