Manly Chunks of Wisdom | Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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

― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

― Ernest Hemingway

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

― Ernest Hemingway

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“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.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“Never confuse movement with action.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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

― Ernest Hemingway

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea