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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)

Ernest Hemingway quote: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

Ernest Hemingway

Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)
Source: Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
Context: An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

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

Ernest Hemingway book Men Without Women

Disputed <br class="br">Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.

“He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”

Ernest Hemingway

Introduction to Men at War (1942)

“They [the best of the Masai] had that attitude that makes brothers, that unexpressed but instant and complete acceptance that you must be Masai wherever it is you come from. That attitude you only get from the best of the English, the best of the Hungarians and the very best Spaniards; the thing that used to be the most clear distinction of nobility when there was nobility. It is an ignorant attitude and the people who have it do not survive, but very few pleasanter things ever happen to you than the encountering of it.”

Ernest Hemingway book Green Hills of Africa

Part IV, Ch. 1
Green Hills of Africa (1935)

“In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.”

Ernest Hemingway book True at First Light

Source: True at First Light (1999), Ch. 10

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

Ernest Hemingway

Variant: you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering.

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11

“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.”

Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16