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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

Topics

War Three Authority Right Just

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

Success Death Me Back Uncle Copy

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

Plan Never Write Master Directing

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

Home New York City Texas Loved Back

I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.

Great Quality World Story Thought

I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

Work Home People Me Perception You

I like the variety of characters that you can play in films, rather than playing the same role for 10 years as you might on a sitcom.

You Play Same Years Variety Role

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Others Greatest Gifts Helping Chore

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

Business Alone Imagination Road Self

As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.

Christopher Poole

Time Identity Moving Stupid You Say

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Christa McAuliffe

Teacher School I Am Space NASA Go

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Love Justice Men Happy Small Strong

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

Tired Succeed Cold Grow Fade Will

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