We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
- Topic: Life
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More Quotes from Ernest Hemingway
If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.
It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
More on Life
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.