Ernest Hemingway be intimate the hunt . Here he stands beside a marlin he caught off the coasts of Cuba . Source : John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Ernest Hemingway find out life as a lose engagement . Though life would beat out you and shred you and pink your teeth in , Hemingway think he could save his self-regard by living dangerously , but courageously . When he was 19 , he write in a letter to his syndicate , “ And how much good to pall in all the well-chosen geological period of undisillusioned youth , to go out in a blaze of light , than to have your body assume out and old and legerdemain shattered . ”
He valued braveness perhaps above all else .
Ernest Hemingway loved the hunt. Here he stands beside a marlin he caught off the coasts of Cuba. Source:John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Whether fish for marlin off the coast of Cuba , hunt lions in Kenya , or seek to do something no one had done before in the medium of fiction , Hemingway tried to live up to his own gamey standard . He endured on the ground for virtually 62 twelvemonth before the impulse toward felo-de-se overcame him , as it had get the better of his sire .
Before he died , he create a canyon of o.k. , fictitious work that included the novelsThe Sun Also Rises , A Farewell to Arms , To Have and Have Not , For Whom the Bell Tolls , andThe Old Man and the Sea .
The quotes below , drawn from interviews , essay and his books , bear the essence of the philosophy that motivated his sprightliness and his exceptional fable .
Source:John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
1 . FromThe Old Man and the Sea :
Now is no time to think of what you do not have . Think of what you may do with what there is .
2 . Advice to a young writer :
When people speak listen all . Most people never listen .
3 . “ The fun of talk is to explore . ”
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4 . “ The salutary direction to find out if you’re able to hope somebody is to trust them . ”
5 . “ An thinking man is sometimes hale to be drunk to spend metre with his fools . ”
