“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea (Primary source)
Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea is a poignant tale of resilience, dignity, and man’s relationship with nature. Published in 1952, it is one of Hemingway’s most celebrated works and was instrumental in securing him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
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“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
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“Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one already.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“No man ever was glorious who was not laborious.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“My God what would a man do with a woman like that except worship her?”
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