Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the tension between religious upbringing and personal responsibility.
Ernest Hemingway's quote illustrates the inner conflict experienced by individuals raised in religious environments as they transition to a more existential worldview, emphasizing self-responsibility over adherence to imposed beliefs. It suggests that while he acknowledges the influence of religion in his formative years, true maturity and accountability lie in embracing one's own choices and values.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of self-accountability.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.
The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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