Great Throughts Treasury

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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

He was going to sleep a little while. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another street. It went in pairs, on bicycles, and moved absolutely silently on the pavements.

Guilt | Knowledge | Right | Story | Writing |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

It was dark now as it becomes dark quickly after the sun sets in September. He lay against the worn wood of the bow and rested all that he could. The first stars were out. He did not know the name of Rigel but he saw it and knew soon they would all be out and he would have all his distant friends. 'The fish is my friend too,' he said aloud. 'I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

Good | Little | Man | Men | People | Sound | Talking | Time | Waiting |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Say, there's plenty of Americans on this train. They've got seven cars of them from Dayton, Ohio.

Absolute | Appearance | Danger | Death | Little | Order | Purity | Danger | Old |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Cruelty | Day | Important | Learning | Light | Man | Occupation | People | Sacrifice | Will | Cruelty | Value |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did. So you had to manifacture one. At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader. The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant.

Absolute | Brotherhood | Consecration | Death | Duty | Experience | Light | Necessity | World |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

Talking | Think |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

Better | Courage | Good | Kill | Light | Loneliness | Love | Man | People | Time | Will | Wishes | World | Afraid |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

Alchemy | Beginning | Doubt | Enough | Good | Loneliness | Man | Public | Will | Work |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

Ability | Death | Despise | Harm | Necessity | Responsibility | Talent |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Men | Time |

Erving Goffman

The issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with.

Erving Goffman

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Individual | Right | Will | Value |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.

Heart | Truth | Will |

Erving Goffman

Knowing that his audiences are capable of forming bad impressions of him, the individual may come to feel ashamed of a well-intentioned honest act merely because the context of its performance provides false impressions that are bad. Feeling this unwarranted shame, he may feel that his feelings can be seen; feeling that he is thus seen, he may feel that his appearance confirms these false conclusions concerning him. He may then add to the precariousness of his position by engaging in just those defensive maneuvers that he would employ were he really guilty. In this way it is possible for all of us to become fleetingly for ourselves the worst person we can imagine that others might imagine us to be.

Alienation | Experience | Individual | Self |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.

Art | Consolation | Life | Life | Light | Nothing | Speech | Work | World | Writing | Art |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

It is so easy to make the finding of the path so much more complicated than it really needs to be because from within you know if you have been willing to tune yourself to feeling good, no matter what, so that that's what matters most to you...then in your natural quest for joy you'll just keep being on your path...your path unfolds.

Attention | Example | Practice | Will | Value |

Estonian Proverbs

Who wants will get.

Teach | Wants |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

You are on the leading edge of thought, taking thought beyond that which it has been before.

Attention | World |

Eudora Welty

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

Devotion | Learning | Writing |