Ernest Miller Hemingway, 1899 - 1961
Writing in Kenya, 1953 photo for Look Magazine by Earl Theisen
Born: 21 July 1899, Oak Park, Illinois
Died: 2 July 1961, Ketchum, Idaho
Hemingway took a job as a reporter for the Kansas City Star instead of college. Eye damage from high-school boxing matches kept him from fighting in the first world war, but not from driving an ambulance in Italy for the Red Cross. After recovering from wounds sustained in combat, Hemingway stayed on the move, marrying four women in turn, covering the Spanish Civil War, and turning to novels featuring the same terse, clear style he learned as a reporter. "The Old Man and the Sea" won the Pulitzer in 1953 and led to the Nobel Prize in Literature the next year.
Biography from Wikipedia and the Hemingway Resource Center
Ernest Hemingway quotes:
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- A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
- A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
- A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.
- Actually, if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similies (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
- All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
- All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
- All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
- All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
- All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
- Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
- As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
- Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
- But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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