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 moveable feast.
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Ernest Hemingway
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About Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
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 tha…
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.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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.
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.
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.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.