Today is the birthday of Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961), writer and journalist.Ernest Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin." - Ernest Hemingway
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring." - Ernest Hemingway
"The great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own." - Ernest Hemingway
"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today." - Ernest Hemingway
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway
"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time." - Ernest Hemingway
Trivia bit: Ernest Hemingway had a favorite expression: il faut d'abord durer (translation: first one must endure), which he used in his private letters and an sometimes inscribed in books he signed for friends.
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