Ernest Hemingway

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Biography : American novelist and writer.
Born: 1899 - Died: 1961
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

Ernest Hemingway - Quotes

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Courage is grace under pressure.
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courage

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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death

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.
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talent

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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writing

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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war

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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death

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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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