Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes Click here for Ernest Hemingway books Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir "Never mistake motion for action." "Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates." "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best — make it all up — but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way." "Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure." "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn... American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." "It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics." "Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up." "Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." "I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it." "It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way." "All thinking men are atheists." "War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule." "We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes." "They wrote in the
old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war
there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no
good reason."
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