Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure.
~Ernest Hemingway~

Live life to the fullest.
~Ernest Hemingway~

All modern American literature
comes from one book by 
Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
~Ernest Hemingway~

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
~Ernest Hemingway~

Bullfighting is the only art in which
the artist is in danger of death and
in which the degree of brilliance in
the performance is left to the fighter's honour.
~Ernest Hemingway~

The best ammunition against lies 
is the truth, there is no ammunition 
against gossip. It is like a fog and the 
clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
~Ernest Hemingway~

There is no rule on how to write.
Sometimes it comes easily and 
perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling 
rock and then blasting it out with charges.
~Ernest Hemingway~

My aim is to put down on 
paper what I see and what 
I feel in the best and simplest way.
~Ernest Hemingway~

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic,
is almost always simply a lack of ability
to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
~Ernest Hemingway~

All good books are alike in 
that they are truer than if 
they had really happened.
~Ernest Hemingway~ 

A writer's problem does not change. 
It is always how to write truly and 
having found out what is true to project
it in such a way that it becomes part of 
the experience of the person who reads it.
~Ernest Hemingway~

If you are lucky enough to have lived
in Paris as a young man, then wherever 
you go for the rest of your life, it stays 
with you, for Paris is a movable feast.
~Ernest Hemingway~

I like to listen. I have learned a 
great deal from listening carefully.
~Ernest Hemingway~

I have tried simply to write the
best I can; sometimes I have 
good luck and write better than I can.
~Ernest Hemingway~

We have come out of the time when 
obedience, the acceptance of discipline,
intelligent courage and resolution were
most important, into that more difficult 
time when it is a man's duty to understand 
his world rather than simply fight for it.
~Ernest Hemingway~

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~

 

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