"You ought to be ironical the minute..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.
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“Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.”
“The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.”
“When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.”
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“Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.”
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“A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.”
More on Pity
“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”
“The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.”
“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?”