Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway was a celebrated American novelist and short story writer known for his distinctive prose style and works like 'The Old Man and the Sea.'

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Born
July 21, 1899
Died
July 2, 1961
Quotes
798
Rank
#21

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"Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about."

Dream Nice Book
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"To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it."

Hurt Bad Ass Hell
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"How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!"

Travel Water Sun
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"we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright."

Love Romantic Stars
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Birthday Risk Age
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"You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason."

Spring Rain Fall
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"My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements."

Attitude Golf Games
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"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual."

Ideas Romance Mind
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"No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist."

Cat Animal Liberty
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"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."

Strong Food Wine
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"In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused."

Writing Shining Hammers
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"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started."

Lonely Loneliness Night
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"For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there."

Horse Long Ago Feet
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"It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics."

Writing Law Addresses
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