Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The quotations of
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist
1899–1961
51 quotes, most often on Writing, War & Peace and Life & Death. Part of the Writers collection.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Green Hills of Africa (1935), Part I, Ch. 1- A Letter from Cuba (1934)
A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Letter (6 December 1924); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos BakerIn the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
“In Another Country” in Men Without Women (1927).But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings.
A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 17, “Scott Fitzgerald”I’ve been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Letter to Marlene Dietrich (1 July 1950)- On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 43
- Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (4 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
- Notes on the Next War (1935)
- Notes on the Next War (1935)
Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it?
The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book I, Chapter 2In context- The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book II, Chapter 12In context
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book II, Chapter 13In context
