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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
American
-
Novelist
July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Men
Your
Nothing
Self
Being
Fellow
Fellow Men
Former
Lies
Nobility
Noble
Superior
True
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
Strength
World
Broken
Strong
Some
Afterwards
Breaks
Everyone
Places
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway
You
Father
Look
First
Absolute
Kid
Rule
Successful
Two
Years
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway
Life
Good
Enough
Only
Book
Damn
Good Parts
His
Lucky
May
Other
Overhear
Parts
Something
Whole
Wreck
Writer
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway
Success
Work
You
Your
Always
Aspects
Because
Become
Popular
Reasons
Worst
Wrong
Wrong Reasons
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Failure
Man
Defeat
Made
Defeated
Destroyed
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway
Good
Mood
Depression
Artist
Any
Known
Reward
Terrible
Whether
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Learning
Great
People
Never
Carefully
Deal
Great Deal
Learned
Like
Listen
Listening
Most
I Have Learned
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway
Failure
Man
Who
Old Man
Old
Anybody
Interested
Should
Some
Why
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
Ernest Hemingway
Ring
Get
Going
Tolstoy
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
Mistake
Never
Brainy
Action
Motion
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
You
Drunk
Will
Your
Always
Keep
Mouth
Said
Shut
Sober
Teach
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
Imagination
Always
Ability
Lack
Almost
Cowardice
Simply
Suspend
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway
Great
Green
Game
Sports
Allowed
Deal
Golf
Great Deal
Lose
Putting
Were
Would
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Matter
Never
Think
Crime
How
Justified
Necessary
Nor
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
Life
Love
Dreams
You
Apart
Awake
Fall
Know
My Life
Sleep
Tendency
I Love
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway
Love
You
Go
Never
Anyone
Travel
Trips
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway
Life
You
Man
Go
Enough
Feast
Lived
Lucky
Paris
Rest
Stays
Then
Wherever
Young
Young Man
Your
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest Hemingway
Beauty
Beautiful
You
Fly
May
Like
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest Hemingway
Go
Will
Alcohol
Down
Flame
Idea
Little
Low
Stove
Then
Turn
Were
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway
You
Business
Think
Way
Born
How
Learn
None
Them
Were
Write
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway
Butterfly
Time
Talent
Wings
Did
Dust
He
His
Know
Made
More
Natural
One Time
Pattern
Than
Understood
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway
Book
American
Literature
Modern
American Literature
Huckleberry
Huckleberry Finn
Mark
Mark Twain
One Book
Twain
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest Hemingway
Communication
Night
Never
Deep
Always
Empty
Fed
Learned
Part
Something
Springs
Still
Stop
Well
Writing
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.
Ernest Hemingway
Good
Happiness
People
Day
Always
Could
Except
Few
Itself
Only
Spoil
Spring
The Only Thing
Thing
Very
Were
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway
Water
Enough
Dignity
Writing
About
Above
Being
Due
He
Iceberg
Knows
May
Movement
Ninth
Omit
Only
Things
Writer
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Only
Things
Must
Any
Brings
Defeat
Ever
Happen
Once
One Thing
Only One Thing
Than
Thing
Won
Worse
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Right
Three
Just
Authority
Cause
Conditions
Motive
Necessary
Public
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway
Me
War
Long
Men
Abolition
Both
Complete
Destructiveness
Disputes
Few
Foe
Friend
International
Know
Living
Method
More
Nothing
Now
Other
Rendered
Revolting
Settling
Useless
Very
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Wealth
Wars
Caused
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway
Doing
Answer
Thing
Shortest
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway
Best
Good
Long
Time
Better
Good Luck
Long Time
Luck
Now
Simply
Sometimes
Than
Tried
Write
I Can
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage
Grace
Pressure
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.
Ernest Hemingway
Life
Man
Way
Only
Another
Details
Died
Distinguish
Ends
Every
He
How
Lived
Same
One-Man
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness
People
Know
Intelligent
Intelligent People
Rarest
Thing
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
Best
Feel
Way
Aim
Down
Paper
Put
See
Simplest
I Feel
I See
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Ernest Hemingway
Me
Never
Choose
Rather
Chose
Had
Subject
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway
Good
Than
Happened
Books
Common
Had
One Thing
Really
Thing
Truer
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.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Political
Nation
Permanent
Both
Bring
Currency
Economic
First
Inflation
Panacea
Prosperity
Refuge
Ruin
Second
Temporary
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
You
Heroes
Get
Necessary
Sort
Harder
Older
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway
Difficult
More
Understand
Moral
Abuse
Anything
Applied
Become
Concepts
Critics
Decadence
Differ
Little
Seems
Since
Term
Than
Use
Which
Word
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
Book
Friend
Loyal
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway
Matter
Grass
Who
Live
About
Been
Had
He
Him
Known
Learned
Meat
Once
Personal
Has-Been
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway
Good
Bird
You
Fly
Birds
Different
Different Ways
First
Flying
Last
Same
Sensation
Shot
Ways
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway
Good
You
Feel
Bad
After
Feel Good
Immoral
Moral
Man is not made for defeat.
Ernest Hemingway
Failure
Man
Defeat
Made
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway
Death
You
Who
Enough
Continue
End
Far
He
Keep
Madame
Stories
Teller
Would
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
Ernest Hemingway
True
Know
Now
Thing
One Thing
No-One
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Ernest Hemingway
True
Thing
One Thing
No-One
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway
Age
Equal
Risk
Hesitation
Increases
Proportion
Relation
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