Ernest Hemingway citations célèbres
Ernest Hemingway Citations
Le viel homme et la mer, 1952
“La mort est un remède souverain à toutes les infortunes.”
Ernest Hemingway livre Mort dans l'après-midi
Mort dans l'après-midi, 1938
“Ça m'empêchera pas de le tuer, dit-il; tout superbe et formidable qu'il soit.”
Le viel homme et la mer, 1952
“Dans tous les arts, le plaisir croît avec la connaissance que l'on a d'eux.”
Ernest Hemingway livre Mort dans l'après-midi
Mort dans l'après-midi, 1938
“No. Rien à faire. Rien. Faut pas penser. Faut accepter.”
Ernest Hemingway livre Pour qui sonne le glas
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway: Citations en anglais
“All good books have one thing in common — they are truer than if they had really happened.”
Pt. 2, Ch. 7 - Similar to his remark in "A Letter from Cuba" (1934)
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Ernest Hemingway livre Paris est une fête
Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 5
Letter to his family (18 October 1918); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker. It was also published in The Oak Parker (Oak Park, IL) on 16 November 1918. Only 19 years old at the time, Hemingway was recovering from wounds suffered at the front line while serving as a Red Cross volunteer.
Ernest Hemingway livre True at First Light
Source: True at First Light (1999), Ch. 1
the lowest thing I can think of at this time
Letter (20 March 1953); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Notes on the Next War (1935)
Ernest Hemingway livre Islands in the Stream
Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 19
Islands in the Stream (1970)
On his short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Pt. 2, Ch. 9
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Luis Miguel Dominguin had undergone surgery after being wounded in a bullfight. From the context it is clear that his remark about Hemingway was a joke.
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 10
“The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.”
Pt. 2, Ch. 6
Papa Hemingway (1966)
“[T]he rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.”
Ernest Hemingway livre Green Hills of Africa
Part III, Ch. 1
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
As quoted in That Summer in Paris (1963) by Morley Callaghan
Postscript to letter to critic, poet and translator Ivan Kashkin (19 August 1935); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Letter (12 January 1936); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Letter (26 August 1940); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
On Ezra Pound, as quoted in The New Republic (11 November 1936)
Ernest Hemingway livre The Sun Also Rises
Bill Gorton to Jake Barnes, in Book 2, Ch. 12
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
Pt. 1, Ch. 4
Papa Hemingway (1966)
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
Ernest Hemingway livre Green Hills of Africa
[…] it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
Part I, Ch. 1
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
A Letter from Cuba (1934)
Ernest Hemingway livre Mort dans l'après-midi
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 9
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
Letter (9 July 1950); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
