Ernest Hemingway's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 5 votes from people: But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. · All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. · The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.. (Updated May 9, 2019.)
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated", Paris as a moveable feast and "one true sentence": Ernest Hemingway's most quoted lines, with the novel or book they come from.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 11
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
A Moveable Feast (1964).
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The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
A Farewell to Arms (1929).
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Grace under pressure.
His definition of courage, in a 1929 New Yorker profile by Dorothy Parker.
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"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly."
The Sun Also Rises (1926).
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Isn't it pretty to think so?
The Sun Also Rises (1926), last line.
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You are all a lost generation.
Epigraph to The Sun Also Rises (1926), words of Gertrude Stein.
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There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Epigraph to A Moveable Feast (1964), from a letter to a friend.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
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Every day above earth is a good day.
The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
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