Ernest Hemingway: Idézetek angolul (oldal 4)
Ernest Hemingway volt amerikai, irodalmi Nobel-díjas regényíró, novellista, újságíró. Idézetek angolul.“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
Forrás: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 21
Book 3, Ch. 19 (the last lines of the novel)
Forrás: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
Forrás: A Farewell to Arms
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
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.”
Forrás: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Változat: 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.
Forrás: 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)
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.”
Forrás: 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
“But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.”
Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontextus: You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.