Ernest Hemingway: Citáty anglicky

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“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”

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Ernest Hemingway

“Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

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Ernest Hemingway kniha The Old Man and the Sea

Zdroj: The Old Man and the Sea

“You are all a lost generation.

[with credit to Gertrude Stein]”

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Ernest Hemingway kniha The Sun Also Rises

Zdroj: The Sun Also Rises

“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”

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Ernest Hemingway

Zdroj: The Complete Short Stories

“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”

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“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. […] it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”

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Ernest Hemingway kniha Green Hills of Africa

Part I, Ch. 1
Green Hills of Africa (1935)

“Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.”

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“I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”

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Ernest Hemingway kniha A Moveable Feast

Zdroj: A Moveable Feast

“If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

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Ernest Hemingway kniha Komu zvoní hrana

Ch 43
Zdroj: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”

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Men Without Women (short story collection) (1927)
Zdroj: The Complete Short Stories

“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”

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Ernest Hemingway kniha Komu zvoní hrana

Zdroj: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”

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Ernest Hemingway kniha The Sun Also Rises

Varianta: I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
Zdroj: The Sun Also Rises

“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war."
Defeat is worse."
I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”

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Ernest Hemingway kniha A Farewell to Arms

Zdroj: A Farewell to Arms

“I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.”

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Varianta: I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
Zdroj: The Complete Short Stories

“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”

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Ernest Hemingway kniha A Moveable Feast

Zdroj: A Moveable Feast