The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist and journalist whose spare, declarative prose style revolutionized twentieth-century fiction. His works - 'The Sun Also Rises,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'The Old Man and the Sea' - and his Nobel Prize (1954) established him as the most influential American writer of his generation.

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Ernest Hemingway's Other Quotes

Courage is grace under pressure.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

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