“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” – Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Hemingway is arguably one of the greatest novelists and short-story writers of all time and his Nobel Prize for Literature (1954) certainly supports this assertion. That said the aforementioned quotation really requires additional explanation and context to be appreciated. I consider myself a fairly well-versed Hemingway enthusiast but I do not recall reading this line in the works I’ve read. I would be grateful for any additional information about the origin of this quote.

Ernest Hemmingway Nobel Prize speech (gointothestory.blcklst.com)
Listen: Hemingway’s Short, Moving Nobel Prize Speech (wired.com)
“Can we ever really know Ernest Hemingway?” (salon.com)
Nobel Prize for Literature: the good, the bad and the British (telegraph.co.uk)
Papa Exposed (thedailybeast.com)

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