Ernest Miller Hemingway, born July 21, 1899, is a Nobel laureate. He is recognized around the world for writing classic novels “The Sun Also Rises”, “A Farewell to Arms” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls”. In addition to these successful novels, he is also appreciated for his short stories such as ‘Hills Like White Elephants’, ‘A Clean Well-Lighted Place’, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ and a series about a character named Nick Adams. .
To celebrate the 120th birthday of this incredible author, we’ve put together 10 famous Hemingway quotes that will captivate you:
1. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
2. “There is nothing to write. All you have to do is sit behind a typewriter and bleed.”
3. “The most painful thing is to lose yourself when you love someone too much, and forget that you are special too.”
4. “There is nothing noble about being superior to one’s fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
5. “All good books are the same because they are truer than if they really happened and after you read one you will feel that everything that happened to you and after that it is all yours: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sadness, the people and the places and what the weather was like. If you can get that so you can give that to people, then you’re a writer.”
6. “Every day is a new day. Better to be lucky. But I’d rather be precise. When the luck comes, you’re ready.”
7. “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.”
8: “You can’t escape yourself by going from one place to another.”
9. “Forget your personal tragedy. We’ve all been bitched from the get-go and most of all you have to be hurt before you can write seriously. But if you get the fucking pain, use it — don’t play with it.”
10. “Never think that war, however necessary or justified, is not a crime.”
Hemingway produced the majority of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. During his lifetime, he published seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two non-fiction works.