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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.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

Ernest Hemingway

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Ernest Hemingway

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Ernest Hemingway

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Ernest Hemingway

The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Ernest Hemingway

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

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