Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
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I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
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'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'
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I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
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While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.
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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
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I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.
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Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.
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I don't curse on stage, but I feel like I curse more because I have kids and in front of my kids. Not intentionally.
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In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.
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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great. There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place.A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man,and every man shall be his own priest.
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Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
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From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.
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You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
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There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
