Farewell To Arms Quotes - Page 2

• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Military, War

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Want, Lie To Me

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.62, Hamilton Books

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• Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Writing, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2261, Simon and Schuster

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• You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Mind, Knows

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.67, Hamilton Books

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• I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sick, Faithful, Faults

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.68, Hamilton Books

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• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters

  "Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" by James Joiner, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wise, Life Lesson, Army

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Doctors, Practice Of Medicine, Medical

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Syphilis, Firsts, Ends

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.68, Hamilton Books

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• It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Rain, Farewell

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Intelligent, Two, Brave

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.83, Hamilton Books

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• Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Lonely, Jealous

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sacrifice, Meat, Chicago

  A Farewell to Arms ch. 27 (1929)

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• But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Rain, Light, Doors

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• I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Business, Rain, Sacrifice

  "A Farewell to Arms". Book by Ernest Hemingway., 1929.

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Brave, Coward

  "Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics".

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• Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Numbers, Names, Rivers

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Coward, Arms

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• The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Day Night, Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Doors, Bed, Saws

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.54, Hamilton Books

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• Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Forget, Said

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.92, Hamilton Books

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• There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Mean, Names, Rivers

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.109, Hamilton Books

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• I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Farewell, Writing, Arms

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• Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

  Robert Reed

  Book, Reading, Farewell

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