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Ernest Hemingway

Read through the most famous quotes from Ernest Hemingway




I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.


— Ernest Hemingway


#life

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.


— Ernest Hemingway


#love

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.


— Ernest Hemingway


#wisdom #age

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.


— Ernest Hemingway


#love

All things truly wicked start from innocence.


— Ernest Hemingway


#innocence #start #things #truly #wicked

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.


— Ernest Hemingway


#pain #relationships #self #love

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.


— Ernest Hemingway


#love

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


#charges #comes #drilling #easily #how

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her


— Ernest Hemingway


#humor

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.


— Ernest Hemingway


#character #characters #create #living #novel






About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Quotes




Did you know about Ernest Hemingway?

In 1954 when Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature it was for "his mastery of the art of narrative most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style. The sentences build on each other as events build to create a sense of the whole.

His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. He publiErnest Hemingwayd seven novels six short story collections and two non-fiction works.

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