Strong in all the Broken Places
Ernest HemingwayI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: self creativity words-of-wisdom self-improvement
I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said 'I don't know who killed him, but he's dead all right,' and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water.
Ernest HemingwayI have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: inspirational philosophy simplicity
Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog...all right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
Ernest HemingwayThere are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
Ernest HemingwayProse is architecture, not interior decoration.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: writing-advice
I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: war glory sacrifice honor propaganda
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: jake-barnes sun-also-rises
it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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