Ernest Hemingway on reading
Ernest Hemingway99 quotes“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”
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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway No one you love is ever truly lost.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Work could cure almost anything.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Being against evil doesn’t make you good.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway How little we know of what there is to know.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway We wait always for something that does not come.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway You never understand anybody that loves you.
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People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.
Bill GatesBill Gates No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert FrostRobert Frost The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
John GreenJohn Green He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
John GreenJohn Green Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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