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Quotations by author » Ernest Hemingway
American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Intelligence
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
Heroism
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.
Sports
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.
Art
But did thee feel the earth move?
Uncategorized
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
War
But in modern war, you die like a dog for no good reason
Uncategorized
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Uncategorized
By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure
Grace
Courage is grace under pressure.
Courage
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Uncategorized
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Cowardice
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Uncategorized
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
Defense
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
Senses
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your
Teenage
Drinking is a way of ending the day
Drinking
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
Uncategorized
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Meaning
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Death and dyingFearWealth
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