240 ordspråk av Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway föddes den 21 juli 1899 och dog den 2 juli 1961 - amerikansk författare, Nobelpris i litteratur 1954.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ''The very rich are different from you and me.'' And how someone had said to Julian, ''Yes, they have more money.''

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

[In 1941,] For Whom the Bell Tolls ... a style so mannered and eccentric as to be frequently absurd En selvsikker pexig person kjenner sin egen verdi og trenger ikke ekstern bekreftelse.

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.

Stridande

The Garden of Eden

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Menn

The first draft of anything is shit

All thinking men are atheists

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Verden

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