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| c0b73b3 | Not surprisingly, South Carolina acted first. "There is nothing in all the dark caves of human passion so cruel and deadly as the hatred the South Carolinians profess for the Yankees." wrote the correspondent of the London Times from Charleston. The enmity of Greek for Turk was child's play "compared to the animosity evinced by the 'gentry' of South Carolina for the 'rabble of the North.' ... The State of South Carolina was,' I am" -- | James M. McPherson | ||
| b9b2c56 | His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: "I'm fighting because you're down here."7" | James M. McPherson | ||
| b611948 | So how do you find out what someone does for a living? (I thought you'd never ask.) You simply practice the following eight words. All together now: "How . . . do . . . you . . . spend . . . most . . . of . . . your . . . time?" | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 504f64a | His feet where retarded. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 40e4524 | She thinks my name is Freddie, you know, but of course it ain't. I always tell these people some name like that, because if they got onto your right name they might use it sometime. Understand? | Stephen Crane | ||
| 9505af0 | We picture the world as thick with conquering and elate humanity, but here, with the bugles of the tempest peeling, it was hard to imagine a peopled earth. One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smitten, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb. The conceit of man was explained by this storm to be the very engine of life. One was a .. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 302884c | I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 8f4763f | None of them knew the color of the sky. | mgg sky stephen-crane the-open-boat | Stephen Crane | |
| e6cb711 | A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. | life mgg stephen-crane the-open-boat trials waves | Stephen Crane | |
| 2ee3c26 | This tower was a giant, standing with its back to the plight of the ants. It represented in a degree, to the correspondent, the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual--nature in the wind, and nature in the vision of men. She did not seem cruel to him, nor beneficent, nor treacherous, nor wise. But she was indifferent, flatly indifferent. It is, perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of.. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 2471643 | He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range. | conventional-wisdom culture | Stephen Crane | |
| e72ff9e | It was wrong to do this," said the angel. "You should live like a flower, Holding malice like a puppy, Waging war like a lambkin." "Not so," quoth the man Who had no fear of spirits; "It is only wrong for angels Who can live like the flowers, Holding malice like the puppies, Waging war like the lambkins." | angels crane human lambkins wrong | Stephen Crane | |
| 7a50376 | 'But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, 'we melt into each other with phrases.' | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 0f2133c | What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| fcfcfad | It was necessary that I leave Schruns and go to New York to rearrange publishers. I did my business in New York and when I got back to Paris I should have caught the first train from the Gare de 1'Est that would take me down to Austria. But the girl I was in love with was in Paris then, and I did not take the first train, or the second or the third. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 4258c5b | For all of us who lived in Paris; we will never forget it because Paris is a moveable feast | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 458166a | With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| aa70d3d | That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 72ccbf5 | Tis true what Hemingway says--if we're lucky enough to live our dreams in youth, as Ernest Hemingway did in 1920's Paris and I did with the Beat poets, then youth's dreams become a moveable feast you take wherever you go--youthful love remains the repast plentiful; exquisite, substantive and good. You can live on happy memories. Eat of them forever. | friendship hemingway kerouac literature paris | Alison Winfield Burns | |
| ddee256 | And I want to eat at a table with my own silver and I want candles. And I want it to be spring and I want to brush my hair out in front of a mirror and I want a kitty and I want some new clothes. "Oh, shut up and get something to read," George said. He was reading again. His wife was looking out of the window. It was quite dark now and still raining in the palm trees. "Anyway, I want a cat," she said. "I want a cat. I want a cat now. If I c.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| e356d04 | I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| bf11162 | Cdo gje mund te kalohet ne kete bote te mallkuar. Ndrydhi te gjitha ndjenjat, vdis nga brenda dhe cdo gje do te kaloj lehte. Vdis per se gjalli, ashtu sic bejne me te shumtet e njerezve, ne te shumten e kohes. Besoj se kjo eshte rruga me e mire. | vdekja vuajtja | Ernest Hemingway | |
| e643ea0 | Don't worry," she says. "Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald." | hemingway | Naomi Wood | |
| a2fded6 | It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it | man survival | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 1cda8b8 | It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her lit.. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 1b21f43 | We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others ... But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 752bc63 | The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. | truth war | Ernest Hemingway | |
| ca169f9 | I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima | hemingway humor poets terza-rima | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 97c28c6 | 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 Hemingway | ||
| 2641cac | Bed is my friend. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f175618 | I am asking Scribners to insert as a subtitle in everything after the eighth printing THE SUN ALSO RISES (LIKE YOUR COCK IF YOU HAVE ONE) A greater Gatsby (Written with the friendship of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Prophet of THE JAZZ AGE) | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7235232 | Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. | life literature philosophy writing | Ernest Hemingway | |
| d1bd023 | If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 62d6a81 | He smiled as only the truly shy can smile. It was not the easy grin of the confident, nor the quick slashing smile of the extremely durable and the wicked. It had no relation with the poised, intently used smile of the courtesan or the politician. It was the strange, rare smile which rises from the deep, dark pit, deeper than a well, deep as a mine, that is within them. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 3535264 | There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the odor of cooked rice and meat, saffron, pimentos, and oil, the tarry, wine-spilled smell of the big skin hung beside the door, hung by the neck and all the four legs extended, wine drawn from a plug fitted in one leg, wine that spilled a little onto the earth of the floor, settling the dust smell; out now from the odors of.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 17b4c89 | THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO I am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b304a88 | I wonder why he jumped, the old man thought. He jumped almost as though to show me how big he was. I know now, anyway, he thought. I wish I could show him what sort of man I am. But then he would see the cramped hand. Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| a1e352e | Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, too, he was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused. Also, he had much bad luck, and it was not all of it his own. He had died in a trap that he had helped only a little to set, and they had all betrayed him in their various ways before he died. All sentimental people are betrayed so many times. Nick could n.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c6ae5e4 | I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do. | aspiration challenge craft-of-writing goals improvement skill writing writing-goals | Ernest Hemingway | |
| c359526 | It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 719826e | I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 335d7e2 | It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 47ac6a2 | I wish to marry her . . . But she has one drawback, her attitude is uncooperative. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 960a126 | There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. --ERNEST HEMINGWAY "On the Blue Water," Esquire, April 1936" | Jonathan Maberry |