“There’s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there’s no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.”
Lion Feuchtwanger
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“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
Gabriel García Márquez
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Ernest Hemingway
Posted in Wise Words About Life, tagged atheists, book, books, cat, courage, drinking, Ernest Hemingway, Happiness, Life, listen, Love, man's life, Paris, Retirement, superior, trips, trust, War, wine, Worry, writer, writer's job on October 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist.
Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
We wait always for something that does not come.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
The writer’s job is to tell the truth,
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
All thinking men are atheists.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
Man is not made for defeat.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there’s a lot of difference.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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Posted in Thought for Today, tagged Rabindranath Tagore on October 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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