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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#each #end #except #good #good wife

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#above #being #dignity #due #enough

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#father #first #kid #look #rule

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#anyone #go #love #never #trips

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#american literature #book #called #comes #finn

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#broaden #i #like #mind #standing

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#been #continue #disrespectful #fail #i

Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?' Carl Anthony quoted by Rebecca Solnit ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#environmentalism

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#craft #ever #master #where

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#artist #brilliance #danger #death #degree