Overview
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, American author Ernest Hemingway.
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"The priest did not speak to them when they wore shorts, but he did not denounce them and when they wore trousers in the evening the three of them bowed to each other."
- The Garden of Eden
"He held her close and hard and inside himself he said goodbye and then goodbye and goodbye. 'Let's lie very still and quite and hold each other and not think at all' he said and his heart said goodbye Catherine goodbye my lovely girl goodbye and good luck and goodbye."
- The Garden of Eden
"At the cafe he found the morning peper and the Paris papers of the day before and had his coffee and milk and the Bayonne ham with a big beautifully fresh egg that he ground coarse peper over sparsely and spread a little mustard on before he broke the yolk."
- The Garden of Eden
"I never wanted to be a painter nor a writer until I came to this country. Now it's just like being hungry all the time and there's nothing you can ever do about it."
- The Garden of Eden
"Yesterday was like loving someone when someone's died."
- The Garden of Eden
"...it is very well to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
- The Garden of Eden; This quote is probably very much like something Hemingway would say to himself, while writing his beautifully complicated novels that are stated so simply.
"Some places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them."
- A Moveable Feast
"Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well."
"This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood."
- A Moveable Feast
"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and a higher grade of manure."
- A Moveable Feast
Letters from Hemingway
Hemingway is seen in rare video footage which captures his time spent in Cuba with Fidel Castro during the 1950's. Approximately a decade earlier, Hemingway is shown in the South of France -- a place that he openly shared as being one of his favourites.
