“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
—-Ernest Hemingway.
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Ernest Hemingway: True nobility
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”
—Ernest Hemingway.
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Ernest Hemingway: Crime
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” – Ernest Hemingway.
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Ernest Hemingway: Bullfighting
“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.”
—Ernest Hemingway.
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Ernest Hemingway: Forced to be drunk
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
—Ernest Hemingway.
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Ernest Hemingway: Listen
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
~Ernest Hemingway.
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Ernest Hemingway: War
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
~Ernest Hemingway.
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Ernest Hemingway: Cowardice
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”
Ernest Hemingway in Milan, 1918 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Ernest Hemingway: The best people
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. –Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
English: Hemingway posing for a dust jacket photo by Lloyd Arnold for the first edition of “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, at the Sun Valley Lodge, Idaho, late 1939. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
