Ernest Hemingway
Born July 21, 1899 - Died July 2, 1961
There is a part of me that could have fallen madly in love with this man - that part of me which occupies twenty-four hours of my day. It's wonderful when great people leave behind a bit of themselves after they have gone. Here are some funny and great things this man had to say outside of the pages of his books:
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
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"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
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"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
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For more information see Nobel Prize Organization's Ernest Hemingway Biography
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
Although I like Hemingway iconography, the image of the man, I was never able to read a word he wrote. I tried a few times but I wasn't interested in what he had to say. Perhaps it was too far off my beaten path.
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