They wrote in the…
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.… More »
Tag: Ernest (Miller) Hemingway
Never think that war…
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961) (Image by Matthias Burtscher from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Happiness in…
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961) (Image by www_slon_pics from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
But remember how you…
But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks. – Manolin — Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961): The Old Man and the Sea More »
I like to listen. I…
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961) More »
My aim is to put…
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961) More »
The writer’s job is…
The writer’s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961) More »
But man is not made…
“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” I am sorry that I killed the fish though, he thought. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961): The Old Man and the… More »
Only I have no luck…
Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. – Santiago –… More »
The best way to find…
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961) More »
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