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source: Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Ernest Hemingway (2009). “Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms”, p.49, Infobase Publishing

topic: War, Names, Honor, Farewell To Arms, Glory And Honor

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Life, Nothing To Lose, Manage, Farewell To Arms

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Night, Lonely People, Day Night

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wall, Dark, Caring, Farewell To Arms, Unknowing

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Life, Wise, Wisdom, Farewell To Arms

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.188, Hamilton Books

topic: Sleep, People, Together, Farewell To Arms, Sleeping Together

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Death, Writing, Stories, True Story, Farewell To Arms

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Darling, Farewell To Arms

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Love, Breakup, Two, Widowhood, Good Wife

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Farewell To Arms

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Love, Fall, Want, Farewell To Arms

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.30, Hamilton Books

topic: War, Believe, Home, Farewell To Arms

Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Dark, Night, Hunting, Farewell To Arms, Capri

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Girl, Farewell To Arms, Another Girl

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters, Inspiration To Write, Starting To Write

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Inspirational, Military, War, Soldiers At War, Just War

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Book, Common, Good Book, Farewell To Arms

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

- Andrew Marvell

source: "To His Coy Mistress" l. 31 (1681)

topic: Witty, Time, Humorous, Hurrying, Chariots

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Intelligent, Men, Two, Farewell To Arms

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.68, Hamilton Books

topic: Sick, Faithful, Faults, Farewell To Arms

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wise, Life Lesson, Army, Farewell To Arms

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Doctors, Practice, Medicine, Farewell To Arms, Doctor Who

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.75, Hamilton Books

topic: Fear, Rain, Farewell, Farewell To Arms

I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: "A Farewell to Arms". Book by Ernest Hemingway., 1929.

topic: Business, Rain, Sacrifice, Proclamation, Standing In The Rain

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Girl, Lonely, Jealous, Farewell To Arms

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Rain, Light, Doors, Farewell To Arms

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.

- Meredith Willson

topic: Men, Brave, Coward, Farewell To Arms

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

- William Shakespeare

topic: Courage, Coward, Arms, Farewell To Arms, Valiant

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.54, Hamilton Books

topic: Doors, Bed, Saws, Farewell To Arms

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Farewell, Writing, Arms, Farewell To Arms, Art Of Writing

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.

- David Morrell

source: "Writer-to-Writer: A Conversation David Morrell, Master of the Modern Thriller". Interview with Mark Rubinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.

topic: War, Farewell, Mind, Whom The Bell Tolls, Farewell To Arms

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