“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
Ernest Hemingway (American writer)
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Born : July 21, 1899
Died : July 2, 1961
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American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century.
Hemingway’s characters plainly embody his own values and view of life. The main characters of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are young men whose strength and self-confidence nevertheless coexist with a sensitivity that leaves them deeply scarred by their wartime experiences. War was for Hemingway a potent symbol of the world, which he viewed as complex, filled with moral ambiguities, and offering almost unavoidable pain, hurt, and destruction.
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Born : July 21, 1899
Died : July 2, 1961
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American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century.
Hemingway’s characters plainly embody his own values and view of life. The main characters of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are young men whose strength and self-confidence nevertheless coexist with a sensitivity that leaves them deeply scarred by their wartime experiences. War was for Hemingway a potent symbol of the world, which he viewed as complex, filled with moral ambiguities, and offering almost unavoidable pain, hurt, and destruction.
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"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."
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"Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?"
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"When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice."
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Men Without Women
― Men Without Women
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
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“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
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“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
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“You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
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“I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
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“Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her”
― To Have and Have Not
― To Have and Have Not
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Sylvia Plath
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Born : October 27, 1932
Died : February 11, 1963
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pseudonym Victoria Lucas, American poet whose best-known works, starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction closely tied to her personal experiences.
Plath published her first poem at age eight. She suffered from severe depression, attempted suicide, and underwent a period of psychiatric hospitalization.
During her last three years Plath abandoned the restraints and conventions that had bound much of her early work. She wrote with great speed, producing poems of stark self-revelation and confession. The anxiety, confusion, and doubt that haunted her were transmuted into verses of great power and pathos borne on flashes of incisive wit. Her poem “Daddy” and several others explore her conflicted relationship with her father, after this burst of productivity, she took her own life.
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Born : October 27, 1932
Died : February 11, 1963
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pseudonym Victoria Lucas, American poet whose best-known works, starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction closely tied to her personal experiences.
Plath published her first poem at age eight. She suffered from severe depression, attempted suicide, and underwent a period of psychiatric hospitalization.
During her last three years Plath abandoned the restraints and conventions that had bound much of her early work. She wrote with great speed, producing poems of stark self-revelation and confession. The anxiety, confusion, and doubt that haunted her were transmuted into verses of great power and pathos borne on flashes of incisive wit. Her poem “Daddy” and several others explore her conflicted relationship with her father, after this burst of productivity, she took her own life.
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