2nd July 2011 Hemingway, With & Without The Mask

I posted a Blog on Earnest Hemingway a short while earlier, and here are a few phrases said by him that I thought might shed a tinny bit of light to his very complex character. Some are only according to my not quite 100% reliable memory (!), not word for word: ~

 

* Men are not made to be defeated. He could be destroyed but not defeated.

 

* You make love while getting clogged up in a novel, runs the risk that the best parts remain in the bed.

 

* A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

 

* To write about life, you have to first live it.

 

* To write and to travel, apart from broaden your outlook, also broaden your backside. So I prefer to write standing up.

 

* The great emotions don't need great words. The old and simple ones suffice.

 

* A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

 

* All things truly wicked start from innocence.

 

* Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

 

* An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

 

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