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> [The only thing that's really important is the stuff he wrote. That's what he cared about, and that's what's worth protecting. The myth and the man time eventually separates. But the work endures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/the-only-thing-that-s-really-important-is-the-stuff-he-wrote-that-s/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

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## More by Jack Hemingway

> [I'm not a furniture person. You sit on the stuff, sleep on it, make love on it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-m-not-a-furniture-person-you-sit-on-the-stuff-sleep-on-it-make-love/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [People ask me what I do, and I tell them, 'I'm a fisherman and a hunter.' They look at me like I'm lazy or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/people-ask-me-what-i-do-and-i-tell-them-i-m-a-fisherman-and-a-hunter/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [I know he wanted me to love fishing and hunting, and I believe that he deliberately set about to make me want to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-know-he-wanted-me-to-love-fishing-and-hunting-and-i-believe-that-he/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [At the time of his death and the few years before, I was just starting to pull myself together and make a reasonably good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/at-the-time-of-his-death-and-the-few-years-before-i-was-just-starting/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [He's never portrayed as being funny. He was a very funny, happy, lively person. Fun to be around and exciting. He was my hero.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/he-s-never-portrayed-as-being-funny-he-was-a-very-funny-happy-lively/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [My mother, along with Papa's other eventual wives - Pauline, Marty Gelhorn, Mary Welch - they all, at one time or another, no matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/my-mother-along-with-papa-s-other-eventual-wives-pauline-marty/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [It's hard to think of your parents as lovers. You know you got here somehow, but it's hard to visualize.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/it-s-hard-to-think-of-your-parents-as-lovers-you-know-you-got-here/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were making a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-wanted-to-write-a-book-about-hemingway-s-paris-but-a-professor-beat/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [I was proud of Papa for his sports.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/i-was-proud-of-papa-for-his-sports/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence as well.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/he-was-a-physically-imposing-presence-6-feet-tall-and-very-broad-in/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [My father had two personas: first, literary, and second, the way he lived. I've been brought up with all of this, but many other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/my-father-had-two-personas-first-literary-and-second-the-way-he-lived/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/frankly-i-never-seriously-read-my-father-s-books-until-after-he-died/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [You might have to go through some smaller rainbows to get at the big fish, but they're in there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/you-might-have-to-go-through-some-smaller-rainbows-to-get-at-the-big/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [Food has always been a thing in our family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/food-has-always-been-a-thing-in-our-family/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

> [We were out drinking and fishing one day, and somebody said to me, 'People are starting to make money off your name. You and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hemingway/we-were-out-drinking-and-fishing-one-day-and-somebody-said-to-me/)

[Jack Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hemingway/)

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