„“At pier four there is a 34-foot yawl-rigged yacht with two of the three hundred and twenty-four Esthonians who are sailing around in different parts of the world, in boats between 28 and 36 feet long and sending back articles to the Esthonian newspapers. These articles are very popular in Esthonia and bring their authors between a dollar and a dollar and thirty cents a column. They take the place occupied by the baseball or football news in American newspapers and are run under the heading of Sagas of Our Intrepid Voyagers. No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sunburned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will sail to another yacht basin and write another saga. They are very happy too. Almost as happy as the people on the Alzira III. It’s great to be an Intrepid Voyager.”
― Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not“

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7489743-at-pier-four-there-is-a-34-foot-yawl-rigged-yacht-with

2009-05-06

„Estonians are fond of quoting Hemingway: “In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.” I was fairly well informed about Hemingway, but I’d never heard that before I first came to Estonia.“

„A few years later, an Estonian editor pointed out the specific passage in To Have and Have Not. Needless to say, I was a bit embarrassed by my own ignorance“

„But, in fairness, perhaps it’s not right to expect an academic to know every sentence from every Hemingway book. Especially when the phrase comes from a book that Hemingway himself is said to have called “junk.” And if we want to split literary hairs, the Estonian-language version of Hemingway isn’t exactly accurate. Still, these are all excuses. The fact is: Hemingway wrote about Estonians.“

„Estonian taxpayers have spent millions behind the inane slogan, “Welcome to Estonia,” but what the nation really needs are better storytellers.“

„I’ve read that Estonia is preparing to spend more than ten million euros over the next several years to promote Estonia’s image abroad. I hope they’ll release their inner storyteller and come up with something more riveting than “Welcome.”“

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-hemingway-said_b_183271

2011-03-11

„In Hemingway’s book To Have and Have Not published in 1937 there is a 13 line paragraph mentioning 2 Estonians aboard a 34 foot yacht in Key West, Florida who wrote articles about their sea adventures and sent them back to Estonia earning $1.00 to $1.30 per column. Papa H. went on to say other Estonian sailors, some 324 of them, were sailing round the world and their stories too met print in Estonia under a column entitled Sagas of Our Intrepid Voyagers. Hemingway surmised that such articles were as exciting for Estonians to read as sport features were for U.S. newspaper readers. Contrary to a multitude of internet reports, the popular quote “In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found” or some similar version of it was not written by Hemingway per se. What he wrote according to my research was: “No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sunburned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians [sic] who are waiting for a check from their last article.” Rather a mouthful and he refers to writers specifically.“

https://www.eesti.ca/hemingway-and-two-estonians/article31724