Ernest Hemingway Quotes

American - Novelist | July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

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

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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

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ernest Hemingway

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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.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Ernest Hemingway

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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Ernest Hemingway

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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Ernest Hemingway

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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Ernest Hemingway

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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Ernest Hemingway

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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway

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When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

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