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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. He was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which included his iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Hemingway died by suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

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

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Ernest Hemingway

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

Ernest Hemingway

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

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"This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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

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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

"Oh Jake," Brett said, We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so?

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