Ernest Hemingway: Citáty v angličtine (page 4)

Ernest Hemingway bol americký autor a novinár. Citáty v angličtine.
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“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

Ernest Hemingway kniha A Farewell to Arms

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

“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

Ernest Hemingway kniha 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)

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”

Ernest Hemingway kniha The Sun Also Rises

Zdroj: 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 kniha A Moveable Feast

Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: A Moveable Feast

“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)

“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 kniha The Old Man and the Sea

Zdroj: 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)
Kontext: 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.