Great Throughts Treasury

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Scott took literature so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.

Daughter | Day | Happy | Life | Life | Wife | Work |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Life | Life | Meaning | Will | Think |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Ability | Day | Good | Life | Life | Nothing | People | Thinking | Truth | Will | Work | Writing |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Hell | Life | Life | Think |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Destroy | Enough | Good | Government | Life | Life | Order | Patriotism | Wishes | Government |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

Enough | Good | Life | Life |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

Heart |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Heart |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

Death | Good | Life | Life |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Ability | Good | Knowledge | Life | Life | Money | Nothing | Price | Reward | Thought | Work | World | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

Life | Life | Order |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I thought I paid for everything. Not like women, pay and pay and pay. There is not a reward or punishment. Just exchange of values. Something comparable to, and in return you get something else. Or work for the sake of something. Anyway after all, at least partially good pay. Much of what I was paying, like me, and I had a good time. You pay either the knowledge or experience, or risk, or money. Enjoy life is nothing like the ability to get something equivalent expended money and realize it. And to get the full price for your money you can. Our world - a solid company. Excellent as a theory. In five years, I thought, it seems to me the same stupid, like all my other superior theory.

Good | Joy | Life | Life | Money | Order | Reward | Thought | Work | World | Worth | Learn | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

Hell | Life | Life | Reason | Suicide |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

Life | Life |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.

Enough | Happy | Life | Life | Praise | Rest | Value |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Life | Life | War | Worry |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

Heart | Time |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.

Life | Life |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

These two branches of our science--on the one side ontogeny or embryology, and on the other phylogeny, or the science of race-evolution--are most vitally connected. The one cannot be understood without the other.

Life | Life | Little | Value |