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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American Novelist

Born: Jul 21, 1899

Died: Jul 2, 1961

Good Man People Time War You

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

Strength Broken World Strong Everyone Some Afterwards Places Breaks

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway

Man Made Defeat Destroyed Defeated

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. Ernest Hemingway

War Man Care Men Long Enough Else Those Hunted Hunting Never Armed Like Liked Anything Anything Else Who Thereafter

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway

You Writing Sit Nothing Down Typewriter Bleed

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. Ernest Hemingway

Love You Trips Never Go Anyone

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway

People Never Most Talk Listen

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

War Matter Crime Think Never How Nor Justified Necessary

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. Ernest Hemingway

War Prosperity Political Inflation First Nation Ruin Temporary Both Economic Permanent Currency Refuge Second Bring Panacea

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway

Love Death Good Man Happy People Wife Suicide Other Lonelier Outlived Except Good Wife Years End Than Then Who Many Each Lived Her Two Two People

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. Ernest Hemingway

Great New Beginning Book Sometimes Try Will Beginning Luck Others Tried Tries Something Writer Attainment Never He True Failed New Beyond Always Been Done Where Again Succeed Then Should Each

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. Ernest Hemingway

You Heroes Older Sort Get Harder Necessary

The shortest answer is doing the thing. Ernest Hemingway

Answer Doing Shortest Thing

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. Ernest Hemingway

Communication Writing Something Fed Never Part Well Learned Empty Always Still Springs Stop Deep Night

Man is not made for defeat. Ernest Hemingway

Man Made Defeat

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. Ernest Hemingway

Good Books One Thing Had Truer Than Common Happened Really Thing

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. Ernest Hemingway

Hate World Worth Fighting Fine Leave Very Place Much

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