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
I drink to make other people more interesting.
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.
Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...
If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
War is not won by victory.
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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.
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.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.