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About Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His work belongs to the 20th century, and he is widely known for a spare, understated style that shaped later writers. He has 257 quotes on the site. He wrote seven novels, six short-story collections, and two works of nonfiction, several of which became classics of American literature. He was also known for an adventurous public image and a blunt, outspoken manner, and he received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- “Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”Ernest Hemingway
- “If my Valentine you won't be,I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”Ernest Hemingway
- “In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.”Ernest Hemingway
- “Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from being killed…”Ernest Hemingway
Prayer: more sayings
- “Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul…”Michael Bassey Johnson
- “Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.”James Martineau
- “Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You hon…”Charles R. Swindoll
Explore Death
- “So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptu…”Iris Murdoch
- “I was a blue-eyed, chubby-cheeked five-year-old when I joined my family on the picket line for the first time…”Megan Phelps-Roper
- “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”Leonardo da Vinci
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Books by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
A short novel, quick to read.