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Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 1
“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 21
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Book 3, Ch. 19 (the last lines of the novel)
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast
Ch 17; Variant: All things truly wicked start from innocence.
As quoted by R Z Sheppard in review of The Garden of Eden (1986) TIME (26 May 1986)
A Moveable Feast (1964)
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast
Variant: Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
Source: A Moveable Feast
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)
Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11
On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson
“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
Letter (9 April 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker