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Ernest Miller Hemingway ( HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls

Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Never confuse movement with action.

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action movement

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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learning listening

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

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resolution will defeat determination

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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attention listening talking

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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wisdom age caution care

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

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As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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age necessity heroes

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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silence alcohol sobriety

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

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Yes, now. Now, please now, only now, not anything else only this now, and where are you and where am I and where is the other one, and not why, not ever why, only this now; and on and always please then always now, always now, for now always one now; one only one, there is no other one but one now, one, going now, rising now, sailing now, leaving now, wheeling now, soaring now, away now, all the way now, all of all the way now; one and one is one, is one, is one, is one, is still one, is still one, is one descendingly, is one softly, is one longingly, is one kindly, is one happily, is one in goodness, is one to cherish, is one now . . .

—Ernest Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Books

Ernest Hemingway has the following books quoted on Quodid:

For Whom the Bell Tolls