Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.
Born: July 21, 1899,United States
Died: July 2, 1961,United States
Notable awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953) , Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
Courage is grace under pressure.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Never mistake motion for action.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
The first draft of anything is shit.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Before you act, listen,
before you react, think,
before you spend, earn,
before you criticize, wait,
before you pray, forgive,
before you quit, try.
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
