Then as I was getting up to the Closerie des Lilas with the light on my old friend, the statue of Marshal Ney with his sword out and the shadows of the trees on the bronze, and he alone there and nobody behind him and what a fiasco he'd made of Waterloo, I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be and I stopped at the Lilas to keep the statue company and drank a cold beer before going home to the flat over the sawmill.
Ernest HemingwayShe talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.
Ernest HemingwayShe's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people.
Ernest HemingwayI belong to this notebook and this pencil.
Ernest HemingwayTag: writing
Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
Ernest HemingwayTag: motivation
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
Ernest HemingwayThe war was a long way away. Maybe there wasn't any war. There was no war here. Then I realized it was over for me. But I did not have the feeling that it was really over. I had the feeling of a boy who thinks of what is happening at a certain hour at the schoolhouse from which he has played truant.
Ernest HemingwayFor three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander.
Ernest HemingwayLos buenos libros se parecen en que son más ciertos que si hubiesen sucedido de verdad y en que, cuando terminas de leerlos, sientes que todo te sucedió y después, que todo te pertenece: lo bueno y lo malo, el éxtasis, el remordimiento y el dolor, la gente y los lugares y cómo estaba el tiempo.
Ernest HemingwayTag: tiempo libro leer experiencia sentir
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
Ernest HemingwayTag: inspirational good-and-evil
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