Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingwaywas an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1899
CityOak Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
Never confuse movement with action.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?