Definition of courage: 'Grace under pressure.'
-- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Never mistake motion for action.
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American novelist and short-story writer
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time,
which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life
to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly
and the only heritage he has to leave.
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult
as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always
more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting,
no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something
as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early
and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human.
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of
ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
--Ernest Hemingway
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
--Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
--Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
--Ernest Hemingway
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
--Ernest Hemingway
What is moral is what you feel good after.
--Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
--Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
--Ernest Hemingway
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
--Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
--Ernest Hemingway
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof
on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the
bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook
from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
--Ernest Hemingway
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