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Ernest Hemingway — Portrait after a picture by Lloyd Arnold (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Ernest Hemingway

American author and journalist

1899–1961

51 quotes, most often on Writing, War & Peace and Life & Death. Part of the Writers collection.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11
- Life & Death
- Writing
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it’s not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
Notes on the Next War (1935)
- Life & Death
- War & Peace
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
- Life & Death
- Time
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book IV, Chapter XXXIVIn context
- Courage
- Life & Death
Life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.
A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book II, Chapter XXIIn context
- Life & Death
- Risk

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