Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
Ernest Hemingway[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
Ernest HemingwayDefense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
Ernest HemingwayYou write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
Ernest HemingwayAnd we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.
Ernest Hemingway