Ernest Hemingway

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 honor."
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"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 honor."
Ernest Hemingway
"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."
Ernest Hemingway
"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
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Ernest Hemingway
"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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
"When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write."
Ernest Hemingway
"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
Ernest Hemingway
"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"
Ernest Hemingway
"Man is not made for defeat."
Ernest Hemingway
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Ernest Hemingway
"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
Ernest Hemingway
"For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive."
Ernest Hemingway
"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."
Ernest Hemingway
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
Ernest Hemingway
"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
Ernest Hemingway
"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
"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
"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."
Ernest Hemingway
"The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
Ernest Hemingway
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