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Ernest Hemingway

Дата рождения: July 21, 1899 – Oak Park, Illinois, United States

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Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for spare prose and themes of war, courage, and loss. His notable works include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, into a middle-class family that valued education, music, and outdoor life. His father, a physician, introduced him to hunting and fishing, while his mother encouraged artistic discipline. After high school, he did not attend college, choosing instead to work as a reporter for The Kansas City Star. That newsroom became an early training ground: its emphasis on short sentences, concrete detail, and disciplined observation shaped the style that later made him famous. A major turning point came during World War I, when he served as an ambulance driver in Italy, was badly wounded, and drew lasting material from the experience.

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All countries look just like the moving pictures
-The Sun Also Rises
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You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that
-The Sun Also Rises
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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters
-The Sun Also Rises
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Isn’t it pretty to think so?
-The Sun Also Rises
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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them
-A Farewell to Arms
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The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places
-A Farewell to Arms
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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain
-A Farewell to Arms
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve
-A Farewell to Arms

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