Quotations from
Ernest Hemingway
[1899-1961]

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American journalist and author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

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“All stories, if continued far enough, end in death. And he is no true storyteller
who would keep that from you.”  {Issue #46}
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“Never mistake motion for action.”  {Issue #49}
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“It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think [that]
you were born that way.”  {blog 10/2007}
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“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”  {blog 5/2008}
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“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be
the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”  {blog 9/2008}
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“Courage is grace under pressure.”  {blog 6/2009 & 12/2024}
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”  {blog 6/2009}
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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”  {blog 6/2009 & 10/2018}
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“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings
worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”  {blog 6/2009 & 5/2020}
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“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is
known as The Artist's Reward.”  {blog 10/2009}
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“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, sh*t detector.
This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.”  {blog 11/2009}
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“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.”  {blog 12/2009}
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“Sometimes [writing] comes easily and perfectly. Sometimes it is like drilling rock
and then blasting it out with charges.”  {blog 10/2010}
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“When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people not characters.
A character is a caricature.”  {blog 9/2011}
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“Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place, then come down and
shoot the survivors.”  {blog 6/2012}
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“All good books have one thing in common: They are truer than if they had really happened.”  {blog 7/2012}
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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
in "Farewell To Arms", 1929  {blog 8/2012}
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”  {blog 1/2013}
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“What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”  {blog 11/2013}
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“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”  {blog 8/2015}
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”  {blog 8/2016}
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“If you can't stay sober to write, who will stay sober to read you?”
~~ advice to young Hemingway while in Paris  {blog 1/2017}
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“Live the full life of the mind, exhilirated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.”  {blog 9/2017}
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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting
in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”  {blog 5/2018}
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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”  {blog 7/2018}
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“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.”  {blog 2/2019}
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“Never confuse movement with action.”  {blog 8/2019}
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“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”  {blog 5/2020}
~~ William Faulkner [1897-1962] (about Ernest Hemingway)
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“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.”  {blog 2/2021}
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“Every day is more dangerous.”  {blog 7/2021}
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“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring
a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” - in "Hemingway On War" [2008]  {blog 7/2022}
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“'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' marked the beginning of American literature. There was nothing before.
There has been nothing as good since.”  {blog 3/2023}

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