Ernest Hemingway: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 4)
Ernest Hemingway był pisarz amerykański. Cytaty po angielsku.“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
Źródło: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 21
Book 3, Ch. 19 (the last lines of the novel)
Źródło: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
Źródło: The Sun Also Rises
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: 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)
Kontekst: 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.