Эрнест Хемингуэй: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 4)

Эрнест Хемингуэй было Американский писатель, журналист, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе 1954 года. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

Ernest Hemingway книга Death in the Afternoon

Источник: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 1

“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

Ernest Hemingway книга A Farewell to Arms

Источник: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 21

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

Ernest Hemingway книга A Farewell to Arms

Источник: A Farewell to Arms

“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

Ernest Hemingway книга A Moveable Feast

Ch 17; Variant: All things truly wicked start from innocence.
As quoted by R Z Sheppard in review of The Garden of Eden (1986) TIME (26 May 1986)
A Moveable Feast (1964)

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

Ernest Hemingway книга A Farewell to Arms

Источник: A Farewell to Arms (1929)

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”

Ernest Hemingway книга The Sun Also Rises

Источник: The Sun Also Rises

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”

Ernest Hemingway книга A Moveable Feast

Вариант: Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
Источник: A Moveable Feast

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

Ernest Hemingway книга The Sun Also Rises

Источник: The Sun Also Rises

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

Ernest Hemingway книга Death in the Afternoon

Источник: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson

“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

Ernest Hemingway книга The Old Man and the Sea

Источник: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

Letter (9 April 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

“But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.”

Paris Review interview (1958)
Контексте: You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.