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November 23, 2013

November 23rd, 2013 11:09pm

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

— Ernest Hemingway (via princess-kitana)
December 15, 2012

December 15th, 2012 10:24am

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

— Ernest Hemingway (via delicateinfebruary)
December 11, 2012

December 11th, 2012 4:09am

Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.

— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (via thepaintedbench)
November 3, 2012

November 3rd, 2012 1:43pm

mfstrange:

Einstein and his therapist. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” -Hemingway
September 7, 2012

September 7th, 2012 10:11am

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

— Ernest Hemingway (via trevoredwards)
June 29, 2012

June 29th, 2012 1:02pm

A defense lawyer asks for a murder trial suspension so he can attend the annual Hemingway look-alike contest. The judge’s response?
June 25, 2012

June 25th, 2012 2:44pm

writersandkitties:

Dinner time for Hemingway and kitty. The kitty inherited everything.
June 18, 2012

June 18th, 2012 10:28pm

I cupped both hands over my mouth and, like Tarzan in the jungle, yelled from one sidewalk to the other: ”Maaaeeestro!” Ernest Hemingway understood that there could be no other master amid the multitude of students, and he turned, raised his hand and shouted to me in Castillian in a very childish voice, ”Adiooos, amigo!” It was the only time I saw him… [it left] me with the impression that something had happened in my life, and had happened for all time.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 30 years ago, on seeing Ernest Hemingway 32 years earlier in Paris. Full story at Wired. (via doubledaybooks)
May 22, 2012

May 22nd, 2012 12:58pm
May 17, 2012

May 17th, 2012 5:33pm

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

— Ernest Hemingway