The 80 Best Phrases by Ernest Hemingway

Here are the best Phrases of Ernest Hemingway, An American writer born in 1899 in the city of Illinois. He is considered one of the greatest writers of North America.

Among his most outstanding books is:" The old man and the sea "Y" For whom the Bell Tolls ". He died in 1961 leaving a great legacy and being an enormous influence for later writers like J. D. Salinger, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, among others.

Ernest Hemingway

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  1. Every man who begins to live in a serious way inside, also begins to lead a simpler life on the outside.
  2. A book is the most loyal friend you can find.
  3. Nothing to do with writing. The only thing you do is sit, type and bleed.
  4. The strangest thing I could find is happiness in an intelligent person.
  5. I love sleeping. When I'm awake, my life tends to collapse, do you understand me?
  6. The best way we can know if we can trust someone is to trust them.
  7. Talent is the way you live your life.
  8. The first version of anything is crap.
  9. I was born to enjoy life. However God has forgotten the money.
  10. You still do not know, but you love me.
  11. Every rational man is an atheist.
  12. Good people, if we think about it a little, are always cheerful people.
  13. What is known as modern American literature is part of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. There was nothing good before. Then there was nothing good.
  14. Try to understand it. You are not a character of tragedy.
  15. Those eyes that once witnessed Auschwitz and Hiroshima will never be able to see God.
  16. The most ruthless beings are always the sentimental ones.
  17. The older we are, the more difficult it becomes for us to have heroes, but it is a sort of necessity.
  18. If for some fortune you could experience what it is to live in Paris when young, then Paris will accompany you wherever you go for the rest of your life.
  19. Always be sober, what you promised when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
  20. Modern warfare makes you die like a dog, for no reason whatsoever.
  21. No man is made for defeat. It can be destroyed but not defeated.
  22. Each new book, for the real writer, should be a new attempt to achieve that for which it has no capabilities.
  23. What makes you feel good is moral, what makes you feel bad is immoral.
  24. In the office of a writer the trash is the best piece of furniture.
  25. There is, except for the suicide bomber, a man only at the moment of death like the one who for many years lived happily with his wife and then the Survived. If two people ever loved each other. There is no way for that to have a happy ending.
  26. We are all apprentices in one ship, where no one becomes a teacher.
  27. Wisdom, power and knowledge have a secret, it is humility.
  28. Never write from anywhere until you are away from it.
  29. A serious writer should not be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or an eagle or even a parrot, but a Solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
  30. Now is not the time to reflect on what you do not have. It's time to think what to do with what there is.
  31. If you do not broaden your mind, write and travel finish by widening your bottom. I like to write standing up.
  32. The most horrible thing is the blank sheet of paper.
  33. The decadence is a word of difficult use since it has become little more than an insult applied by the critics to everything that still Do not understand or appear to differ from their moral concepts.
  34. No weapon has ever established a moral problem. A solution can be imposed, but it can not be guaranteed to be fair.
  35. When writing a novel the writer must create living people. No characters. A character is always a caricature.
  36. The best parts of a book may simply be something the writer was lucky enough to hear out there, or it could be the fruit of a hard Work of all his life. And both ends up being just as good.
  37. Every time I finished a story I felt empty, a feeling both sad and cheerful, as if I had made love. But I always had to Wait until the next day to find out if it was good.
  38. Do not do what you honestly do not want to do. Do not confuse movement with action.
  39. It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to be silent.
  40. Despite not following his dictates, man always has a heart.
  41. Cowardice... is almost always a simple inability to stop the working of the imagination.
  42. That terrible state of depression, being good or bad, is what is known as the reward of the artist.
  43. I felt that loneliness that is felt at the end of a day of life that one has wasted.
  44. I've been trying to write the best I can for a while. Sometimes I have the good fortune to write the best I can.
  45. It's two different things to know a name and know what's in your head.
  46. There is something that differentiates the rich from the others: the rich have money.
  47. A ton of madness. Those are the poets. They should be. You can not put a crazy ton on the asylum.
  48. A man has to suffer a great deal of pain to write a funny book.
  49. I learned to never dry the well of my writing. Rather I always stop when there is something left in the background. And let, thus, be recharged Again in the springs that feed it.
  50. My goal is to put on paper what I see and what I feel in the simplest possible way.
  51. A classic we could define it as the one that everyone admires, but no one reads.
  52. The world is a good place and worth fighting for.
  53. If a writer knows enough about what he is writing, then he can afford to skip some things. The dignity of an iceberg Lies in that it only shows a ninth part of everything there is.
  54. Never think that war, however just or necessary, ceases to be an atrocity.
  55. A poet who used to smoke opium and forgot to eat.
  56. When people talk, they listen completely. Most people never listen.
  57. When he learned to think he did not know how to fly anymore. The reason was that he no longer had love for the flight, had lost it, and all he did was Remember the times when I was flying without effort.
  58. "Now"is a special word to express a whole world and a lifetime.
  59. Every day is a new one. The best thing is to get lucky. But for me it is better to be exact. Then, if luck comes, I'll be prepared.
  60. To arrive at a world full of all that literature, in a city like Paris, it was like giving you a great treasure.
  61. The life of all men comes to a similar end. It is the way in which they live and how they die that distinguishes one man from another.
  62. To be a good father... there is only one absolute rule. Do not notice them at all in their first two years.
  63. We could eat well and cheap, we drank well and cheap, we slept well, together and hot, and we loved each other.
  64. There is not one thing that is true. All are true.
  65. I like to listen. I have learned a lot of things just by listening intently. Most people never listen.
  66. All good books have one thing in common, and they are more certain than if they had really happened.
  67. In old age, no one should be alone, but that is inevitable.
  68. Paris would never be the same, but in any case, it remained Paris.
  69. The sea is sweet and beautiful, but it can also be cruel.
  70. I decided then to go look for it, beyond all the people of the world.
  71. Already the moon had risen long ago, but he continued in his sleep, and the fish was still pulling the boat, and it entered a tunnel Made of clouds.
  72. Wine is the most civilized in the world.
  73. Fish are not as smart as those who kill them. But they are more noble and more skillful.
  74. Never go on a trip with someone you do not love.
  75. An intelligent man is sometimes forced to drink to share a little time with the imbeciles.
  76. The way of thinking about the nights. It's useless in the mornings.
  77. Why did the elders wake up earlier? To have a longer day?
  78. Revolution is not an opium but a purge, an ecstasy that only prolongs tyranny. Opiums are for before or after.
  79. There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to our old self.
  80. Courage is grace under pressure.


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