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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Great events should be described truly

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Preface to The Great Crusade (1940)

Was born on: 21.07.1899
About Author: American author and journalist

Man is not made for defeat

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The Old Man and the Sea, 1952

All good books are alike

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Old Newsman Writes, Esquire, December 1934

Things may not be immediately discernible

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

Nobel Prize Speech (1954)

The world breaks us all

The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.

Farewell to Arms

No special hurry

If a person brings so much courage into the world that the world must kill him to break him, so of course it kills him. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those it cannot break it will kill. It kills the very good, the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these things the world will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

A Farewell to Arms (1929)

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