Ernest Hemingway Quotes

American - Novelist July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961 Read full biography

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

Strength Broken World Strong Places

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

Men Self True Nothing

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Learning Great People Listening

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

Time Man Intelligence Drunk Fools

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway

Best Trust You Way

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

Life Love Dreams Sleep

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway

Start Innocence Things Wicked Truly

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 Details

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

Mistake Brainy Action Never Motion

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Ernest Hemingway
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For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway

Great Luck Beginning Book

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 Spring Day

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway

You Drunk Always Will Mouth

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

Love Travel You Never

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

Friend Book Loyal

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

Ernest Hemingway

Life Beautiful I Am Experience

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

You Down Writing Nothing Sit

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Good You Feel Good Bad

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness People Know Intelligent

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

Love Good Death Man

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

Good Dog War Sweet

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Ernest Hemingway

Man War Men Care

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

Ernest Hemingway

Failure Man Defeat Defeated Made

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway

Master Craft Where Ever

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Ernest Hemingway

Love People Fun Sunday

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway

Doing Answer Thing Shortest

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