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Place·Oak Park✕clear

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway

1942

★ 1.2

The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

1935

★ 1.3

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.0

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Afternoon · 1932

★ 2.0

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.1

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 · 1952

★ 2.1

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea · 1952

★ 2.1

Everyone behaves badly...Give them the proper chance.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.2

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.2

A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.2

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea · 1952

★ 2.3

Letter · Magazine

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Ernest Hemingway

Esquire · 1934

★ 2.8

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull · 1970

★ 3.5

I've always sensed that language is the great liberator. The fitting phrase, the precise word-these permit us to be more nearly ourselves.

1993

★ 3.5

To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end?

1997

★ 3.6

Remark · Autobiography and memoir

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

1950

★ 3.7

No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.

Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not · 1937

★ 3.8

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea · 1952

★ 3.8

Isn't it pretty to think so?

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 3.9

Novel · War novel

Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms · 1929

★ 3.9

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