Ernest Hemingway

(1899–1961) · American Author

American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

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Ernest Hemingway

(1899–1961) · American Author

American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

Courage is grace under pressure.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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.
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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