You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
Ernest HemingwayRead
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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.
And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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