"I was trying to write then and..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.”
“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
“I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.”
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“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”
“History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.”
“One is a majority if he is right.”