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Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Ernest Hemingway
Numbers, Names, Rivers
Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway
Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks
Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

Ernest Hemingway
Home, Night, Devil
Ernest Hemingway (1992). “Complete Poems”, p.34, U of Nebraska Press

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

Ernest Hemingway
Writing, Stories, Decided
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Ernest Hemingway
Men, Missing, Responsible
Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

Ernest Hemingway
Eye, Color, Orange

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Ernest Hemingway
Relief, Modern Life, Life Is

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

Ernest Hemingway
Beautiful, Brother, Men
Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.33, Hueber Verlag

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

Ernest Hemingway
Miserable, Darling
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.13, Hamilton Books

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

Ernest Hemingway
Thinking, Mind, Found
Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

Ernest Hemingway
Sleep, Boys, Young
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.6, Hamilton Books

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude, Generations, Credit

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

Ernest Hemingway
Horse, Fall, Literature
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.97, Hamilton Books

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Ernest Hemingway
Real, Writing, Two
"By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades".

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

Ernest Hemingway
Said, Fishes
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.14, Hamilton Books

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

Ernest Hemingway
Intelligent, Men, Drunk
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

Ernest Hemingway
Islands, Practice, Giving
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4473, Simon and Schuster

You've such a lovely temperature.

Ernest Hemingway
Lovely, Temperature
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

Ernest Hemingway
Trying, Crafts, Unions

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

Ernest Hemingway
War, Years, Forever
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.69, Hamilton Books

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 Hemingway
Past, Prove
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.19, Hamilton Books

When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

Ernest Hemingway
Paris, Lovely, Cold
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

Ernest Hemingway
Country, Cheer, Moving
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.6, Hamilton Books

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.

Ernest Hemingway
Book, Writing, Good Friend

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

Ernest Hemingway
Sleep, Sleeping Together, Together
Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.188, Hamilton Books

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