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
Unlike all other forms of lute or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory; nor, if he wins far enough, shall there be any reward within himself.
Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.
You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.