Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true. What is moral is what you feel good after. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Man is not made for defeat. Nobody knows what’s in him until he tries to pull it out. If there’s nothing or very little, the shock…
By George wordsmiths absolutely love the observations of Ernest Hemingway. Here are a dozen of our favourite memes featuring Papa. Consider joining the By George Facebook page for daily posts of inspiration and motivation from the likes of Ernest Hemingway. Click here to “like”. To pass along Papa’s wisdom, right click on these images…
All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you’ve read one of them you will find that all that happened, happened to you and then it belongs to you forever: the happiness and unhappiness, good and evil, ecstasy and sorrow, the food, wine,…
I couldn’t refer to authors’ rules on effective writing without mentioning my favourite writer and his perspective on what makes great writing. Ernest Hemingway wrote a lot about writing. Here’s a few rules from the Master on what it takes to write well. Use short sentences and short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English – passion,…
Readers of By George Journal will know one of our oft-quoted authors is Ernest Hemingway. Here are some favourite quotes. Courage is grace under pressure. Man is not made for defeat. Never mistake motion for action. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Nobody knows what’s in him until he tries to…
In October of 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although he did not attend the awards ceremony, the following remarks were read for him at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm on December 10, 1954. Hemingway commented on his craft: Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations…
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The Old Man and the Sea is Ernest Hemingway’s last major work of fiction, first published in 1952. The book won a Pultizer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. On the surface, it is a tale of an aged fisherman and his struggle to land a giant marlin. At…
Hemingway’s 1940 epic war story, For Whom the Bell Tolls, provides glimpses into the author’s personal perspectives of the Spanish Civil War – and his bold, stark insights into war and politics, and killing, dying and the coming to terms with one’s mortality. It is a novel preoccupied with death and, at the same time,…
A Farewell to Arms (published 1929) is a book of love and war. It focuses on a romance between an officer and nurse against the backdrop of World War I. The book has been tagged as Hemingway’s bleakest novel. However, it was Hemingway’s first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as “the premier…
Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises is an exploration of love and morality in the streets of Paris and Pamplona. It peers deeply into those things that provide man with meaning to his life and to relationships. The characters are not admirable, at times unlikable, yet the are very alluring. The…
In 1968, A.E. Hotchner wrote a very moving tribute to his great friend Ernest Hemingway. In his book, Papa Hemingway, Hotchner shared many wonderful stories and his insight into the brilliant author. Here are some great Hemingway quotes, as recounted by A.E. Hotchner. Every man’s life ends the same way and it is only the…
On answering a question about “how” he writes, whether with an outline or notes, Ernest Hemingway stated: No, I just start it. Fiction is inventing out of what knowledge you have. If you invent successfully, it is more true than if you try to remember it. A big lie is more plausible than truth….
Through this year, By George Journal is celebrating one of the greatest authors of our time – Ernest Hemingway. Herein is 20 of our favourite quotes from Papa’s 1932 tribute to the sport and art of bullfighting – Death in the Afternoon. In his own bibliographical note, Hemingway writes that the book “is not intended…
A portrait of Ernest Hemingway hangs on our office walls and HE is ever-present as I tap away at the keyboard. Hemingway is a personal favourite – and inspiration – always has been. Now it’s been 50 years since his untimely death. With this passing of time, on January 1st here in Canada, all of…
There is no one thing that’s true. It’s all true. Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all other days that ever come depend on what you do today. “But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but…