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Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist and journalist whose economical, understated prose style influenced 20th-century fiction. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Works like *The Old Man and the Sea*, *A Farewell to Arms*, and *For Whom the Bell Tolls* established him as one of the great American novelists.

“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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All Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Time

“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Travel

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Love

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Communication

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Good

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Happiness

“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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

War

“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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Good

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Best

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Great

“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Imagination

“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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

War

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Best

“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Death

“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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Good

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Age

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

— Ernest Hemingway

Life

“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Good

“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

God

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Good