Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Language

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  • French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2756, Simon and Schuster
  • Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

  • The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

    "Papa Hemingway". Book by A.E. Hotchner, pt. 3, ch.12, 1966.
  • The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

  • Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

    Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
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