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My favorite of his quotes is: "Courage is grace under pressure." meaning that someone who is truly courageous is someone who can act with grace and dignity, even when "under pressure" and going through trying times.
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My favorite of his quotes is: "Courage is grace under pressure." meaning that someone who is truly courageous is someone who can act with grace and dignity, even when "under pressure" and going through trying times.
Indeed a Quote with a lot of power. and meaning - coming from Earnest himself....very impressive really.
I believe he has been in this position so many times in his life, that the words came naturally to him.
I read in one of the many biographies, that he landed a big sea turtle on the deck of Pilar once, and flipped it on to the shell, to suffer in the merciless sun. His guests onboard tried - in vain to persuade him to act otherwise, but with no result.
A very strange and somehow split personality I think he was....clever, gifted and yet also cruel to animals ...exept for his dogs and cats, which makes it even more un-explainable I think.
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Originally Posted by HadleyH
Hadley, your quote is very hard to reconcile with the fact that he committed suicide and fabricated many of his "tales" in his personal letters and papers according to his biographer Carlos Baker. alsendk, I take these statements from Hemingway as prose and look at the man who struggled as all men do when trying to find the courage to deal with life on life's terms. If I look at him this way, I always find a renewed and deeper respect for who he was.
Last edited by Connery; 07-16-2012 at 03:35 PM.
Connery...looking at him in this respect, I tend to agree with you. Whatever bad things I have read about his behavior towards animals, women, alcohol, dispelled friends like Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, and other friends to end up in some sort of bad standing, I still find this man so exiting to know more about, even that he often were using friends in a frame for his fiction, and probably cared less for them after.
On the other hand, how can a writer deal with all these celebrities, moviestars, writers in spe, and hangarounds that was always near him wherever he vent, it must have been difficult at times, to distinguish real friends, though Cooper seem to have been one.
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I haven't seen any discussion of his writings from the sunset of his life. I know that Islands in the Stream can't really be considered a true Hemingway novel, but I just finished it and enjoyed it as much as some of his other master works. Thomas Hudson is a great literary character, IMHO.
Cheers.
I agree, it is one of my all-time-favorite novels.
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations ... may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. Roger Cotes
Why not one of his true novels?
Was it one of his unfinished novels ? if so , who finished it?
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Yes, finished by his publisher and estate, if memory serves...
In the same way as what happened to the garden of eden then
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I recently read E.H.'s short story "A Day's Wait" and I'm struggling with the theme here. I've searched the web and the standard interpretation seems to involve miscommunication, empathy, or concerning over trifling things.
These are all elements in the story to be sure...but, there must be something more. What was E.H. getting at? I just can't find it. If anyone has any insights I'd be grateful.
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