Mark Twain vs. Ernest Hemingway
Read 20 entries attributed to Mark Twain alongside 20 attributed to Ernest Hemingway. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Mark Twain alongside 20 attributed to Ernest Hemingway. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: books, love, success, humor. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #144: "Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #1194: "Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, …"
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Mark Twain
1835 – 1910
Mark Twain (1835) was an American writer and humorist, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
"Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"
#Aesthetics"I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfe…"
#Ethics"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
#Aesthetics"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
#death"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
#books"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience"
#Human Nature"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
#Aesthetics"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
#love"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."
#love"Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near m…"
#Ethics"He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty."
#Aesthetics"He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."
#Aesthetics"I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."
#Aesthetics"It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle i…"
#truth"Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs—the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. We…"
#success"No one doubts—certainly not I—that the mind exercises a powerful influence over the body. From the beginning of time, the sorcerer, the interpreter of dreams…"
#power"The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it."
#humor": "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
#humor"True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god."
#truth"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs n…"
#courageErnest Hemingway
1899 – 1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The…"
#love"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good,…"
#love"Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love."
#love"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
#love"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
#love"I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."
#love"Easy writing makes hard reading."
#books"This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought…"
#mind"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."
#art"Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loan…"
#writing"I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man.... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist."
#success"I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking t…"
#literature"Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you…"
#work"The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
#time"To be a successful father ... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."
#success"SparkNotes of The Old Man And The Sea"
#music"Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work har…"
#time"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soi…"
#humor"Grace under pressure."
#literature"An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment,…"
#justice