"Of all the animals, only man can laugh, even if he has the least reason to laugh." – Ernest Hemingway
He is the great Hemingway war author (he wrote between the two wars; from 1926 to 1952), who left his mark on world literature mainly through his work The old man and the sea, for which he also received Nobel Prize and pulitzer award.
He influenced fiction with his "journalists” style that was strong enough to show his own turbulent and adventurous life. That he lived really differently is also proven by the way he died - he committed suicide with a rifle.
Today, visitors can see an inscription on his grave: “He liked autumn best. Warm yellow autumn leaves floating down the river on the back of a trout, under a calm blue sky. Now he too will consciously be a part of it all.”
15 life wisdom from a great writer:
- Travel only with those you love.
- Do not give up. The secret to small success is to never lose heart.
- The best way to find out if a person is trustworthy is to trust them.
- If you can do at least one small favor in life, do it.
- Of all the animals, only man can laugh, even if he has the least reason to laugh.
- There are two types of people: those you get along with easily and can live without, and those you have a hard time getting along with but can't live without.
- A wise man sometimes gets drunk to hang out with his stupidity.
- There are worse things than war. Betrayal and selfishness are much worse.
- Smart people are rarely happy.
- Where you break, you become stronger.
- Write drunk, react sober.
- There are many women in the world that you can sleep with, but very few that you can talk to.
- The world is a good place worth fighting for, and I don't want to leave it.
- Happiness is: GOOD health and BAD memory.
- I don't care what the world is like. All I want to know is how I live in it. Maybe if you understand how you have to live in the world, you will finally understand what the world is like.
