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
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.
The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ''The very rich are different from you and me.'' And how someone had said to Julian, ''Yes, they have more money.''