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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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