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Hemingway
“Ernest Hemingway” (16 April 2025)
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Posts11
Retweets67
Likes820
First post20 June 2018
Latest post23 May 2026
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Hemingway appears in 11 posts from 2018 to 2026, nearly all quotations, with no discussion of the novels themselves. GritCult uses him as a voice of strength won through damage and as a sceptic of wealth and mere busyness.

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His best-known Hemingway line is the one about breakage. In 2021 he posted a longer version of the passage, bleak second half included: 'BUT THOSE THAT WILL NOT BREAK IT KILLS' [1]. Returning to it in 2026 he kept only the consoling sentence, 'The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.' [2], and the trimmed version drew roughly ten times the likes. His most-shared Hemingway post, from 2025, is an image captioned simply 'Ernest Hemingway' [3], pairing a photograph of the writer with his advice to use personal hurt rather than cheat with it. Pain as raw material is the thread through all three.

The other Hemingway is a critic of comfort and false industry. 'FEAR OF DEATH INCREASES IN EXACT PROPORTION TO INCREASE IN WEALTH' [4] appears three times, in 2021 and 2022, one of several lines in the archive that treat comfort as a danger. 'NEVER MISTAKE MOTION FOR ACTION' [5] makes the same distinction he draws through Seneca between bustle and real work. In 2025 he went so far as to rewrite him, posting a line on technology credited as 'Adapted from Ernest Hemingway': 'Technology does not die with dignity; it fades into irrelevance' [6]. A 2018 match quotes a film, Dom Hemingway, rather than the writer.

Recurring themes

  • strength from being broken
  • pain as raw material
  • wealth and the fear of death
  • motion versus action
  • the journey over the destination

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 30 retweets:

Ernest Hemingway
GRITCULT on X, 16 April 2025

Selected posts

All 11 posts in the archive about Hemingway, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.

DateRetweetsLikesPostMediaSource
16 April 202530423Ernest HemingwayPost imageView
23 May 20269195"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

- Hemingway		View
24 February 2025753“Technology does not die with dignity; it fades into irrelevance”-Adapted from Ernest HemingwayView
9 April 2021720"THE WORLD BREAKS EVERYONE AND AFTERWARD MANY ARE STRONG IN THE BROKEN PLACES. BUT THOSE THAT WILL NOT BREAK IT KILLS. IT KILLS THE VERY GOOD AND THE VERY GENTLE AND THE VERY BRAVE IMPARTIALLY." - ERNEST HEMINGWAYView
20 June 2018412"A man with no options suddenly has all the options in the world"

- dom hemingway, film

alot of the options people are faced with

are rudimentary

if you are creative, you can see past the immediate envrionment, abstract out and see new paths into the future.		View
13 August 2022329FEAR OF DEATH INCREASES IN EXACT PROPORTION TO INCREASE IN WEALTH. - ERNEST HEMINGWAYView
11 February 2023324IT IS GOOD TO HAVE AN END TO JOURNEY TOWARD, BUT IT IS THE JOURNEY THAT MATTERS IN THE END. - ERNEST HEMINGWAYView
23 May 2021319FEAR OF DEATH INCREASES IN EXACT PROPORTION TO INCREASE IN WEALTH. - ERNEST HEMINGWAYView
4 March 2021112"NEVER MISTAKE MOTION FOR ACTION." - ERNEST HEMINGWAYView
28 July 2021026FEAR OF DEATH INCREASES IN EXACT PROPORTION TO INCREASE IN WEALTH. - ERNEST HEMINGWAYView
18 August 202107IT IS GOOD TO HAVE AN END TO JOURNEY TOWARD, BUT IT IS THE JOURNEY THAT MATTERS IN THE END. - ERNEST HEMINGWAYView

History

GritCult first posted about Hemingway on 20 June 2018, and most recently on 23 May 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 11 times, most often in 2021 (5 posts).

See also

The Philosophers portal

References

  1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (9 April 2021). BUT THOSE THAT WILL NOT BREAK IT KILLS. X.
  2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (23 May 2026). The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. X.
  3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (16 April 2025). Ernest Hemingway. X.
  4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (23 May 2021). FEAR OF DEATH INCREASES IN EXACT PROPORTION TO INCREASE IN WEALTH. X.
  5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (4 March 2021). NEVER MISTAKE MOTION FOR ACTION. X.
  6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (24 February 2025). Technology does not die with dignity; it fades into irrelevance ... Adapted from Ernest Hemingway. X.
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