This book is an anthology of 160 quotes from Ernest Hemingway and 70 selected by Blago Kirov facts about Ernest Hemingway. It grants Hemingway’s reflections on subjects ranging from the Old Man to the Sea; in addition, the book shows the personality of Ernest Hemingway into more human light: Ernest Hemingway proposed the following epitaph for his tombstone: “Pardon me for not getting up.” Hemingway never wrote for the movies. Hemingway’s maternal grandparents were from England. Throughout his lifetime, Hemingway lived in Oak Park, Kansas City, Italy, Toronto, Chicago, Paris, Key West, Cuba, and Idaho. Hemingway often drank with James Joyce in Paris. In 1948, in Venice, Hemingway fell in love with the then 19-year-old Adriana Ivancich. The love affair inspired the novel Across the River and Into the Trees. Hemingway preferred to work standing up, spending hours and hours at a time on his feet, moving only to shift his weight from one leg to the other. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” “Fish,” he said softly, aloud, “I’ll stay with you until I am dead.” “Fish,” he said, “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.” “Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.” “Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.” “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” “There isn’t always an explanation for everything.” “Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”
I highly recommend it is you are doing a report on Ernest … If you are looking for a book with interesting fact and his creative quotes this book is just the thing you need. I highly recommend it is you are doing a report on Ernest Hemingway. It has all the information at your finger tips.
Just Ok Was excited to read this book and found some good quotes in it. What I didn’t like was how there were the same quotes used multiple times throughout the book. What I HATED was some quotes were straight from his books (example: the slew of quotes from his book Old Man And The Sea). That was a big let down, taking passages fom books rather quotes of his unique views in life. I should have bought this book used and very cheap.