(1899-1961) '' Verified "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ch. 34 "Grace under pressure" Source: Hemingways definition of "guts" as recounted in the New Yorker (November 30, 1929) "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". Source: Green Hills of Africa (1935) ch. 1 Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called by the Masai "Ngàje Ngài," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. Source: The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1938) "If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it." Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) The title of this work is from Meditation 17 by John Donne "A man can be destroyed but not defeated." Source: The Old Man and The Sea (1952) "A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl." Source: unknown "Never confuse movement with action." Source: unknown Attributed "I'm not going to get into the ring with [Leo] Tolstoy"
Verified "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ch. 34 "Grace under pressure" Source: Hemingways definition of "guts" as recounted in the New Yorker (November 30, 1929) "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". Source: Green Hills of Africa (1935) ch. 1 Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called by the Masai "Ngàje Ngài," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. Source: The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1938) "If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it." Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) The title of this work is from Meditation 17 by John Donne "A man can be destroyed but not defeated." Source: The Old Man and The Sea (1952) "A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl." Source: unknown "Never confuse movement with action." Source: unknown Attributed "I'm not going to get into the ring with [Leo] Tolstoy"
