Ernest Hemingway
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Biography
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around."
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
"The first draft of anything is shit."
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell,"I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good,"I said. "That's what I want too."
"I drink to make other people more interesting."
"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
"All thinking men are atheists."
"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
"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."
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
"Oh Jake,"Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes,"I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."