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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American novelist on courage, love, and living authentically

10 Quotes
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places
— A Farewell to Arms, Chapter 34
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know
— The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another
— The Sun Also Rises, Chapter Two
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure
— New Yorker profile, 1929
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed
— Esquire interview, 1935
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
All thinking men are atheists
— A Farewell to Arms, Chapter Two
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Never mistake motion for action
— Letter to H. Ford, 1949
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
The first draft of anything is shit
— Letter to Arnold Samuelson, Hemingway Letters
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose
— A Moveable Feast, Section: Ezra Pound and his Bel Esprit
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated
— The Old Man and the Sea