"Being against evil doesn’t make you good."
— Ernest Hemingway
(Source: phantoms-and-nautical-daydreams)
Welcome to Ronkville. Established: 2007 Population: 1 (though we get a lot of visitors passing through)
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Short summer night.
visitors Go ahead, ask me a question.
Click the timestamp to go to the full post or source. And read The Ronkville Morning Bugle to keep up on what news is buzzing around our little hamlet today.
Short summer night.
A dewdrop
on the back of a hairy caterpillar
~Buson
visitors Go ahead, ask me a question.
May 18, 2013
February 6, 2013
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
(Source: weezerfann)
February 4, 2013
"I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it."
— The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
(Source: headedwestboundanddown)
January 28, 2013
"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them."
—
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 of 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. He urinated outside the shack and then went up the road to wake the boy. He was shivering with the morning cold. But he knew he would shiver himself warm and that soon he would be rowing.
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.
January 24, 2013
Silver Linings Playbook and Hemingway
Why they dance and have a happy ending in SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK…
“I mean the whole time — let me just break it down for you — the whole time you’re rooting for this Hemingway guy to survive the war and to be with the woman that he loves, Catherine Barkley, And he does. He does. He survives the war, after getting blown up he survives it, and he escapes to Switzerland with Catherine.
But now Catherine’s pregnant. Isn’t that wonderful? She’s pregnant. And they escape up into the mountains and they’re gonna be happy, and they’re gonna be drinking wine and they dance — they both like to dance with each other, there’s scenes of them dancing, which was boring, but I liked it, because they were happy. You think he ends it there?
No! He writes another ending. She dies, Dad.
I mean, the world’s hard enough as it is, guys. It’s fucking hard enough as it is. Can’t somebody say, “Hey, let’s be positive? Let’s have a good ending to the story?”
That Hemingway…
You think he will go back and read Hemingway again, now?
October 31, 2012
"Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?"
— Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises
(Source: curatedsociety)
July 21, 2012
Today is the birthday of Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway - 1940
Both U.S. presidential candidates of 2008, Obama and McCain, cited Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
July 17, 2012
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
—
Ernest Hemingway
(Source: ridingsidesaddle)
July 2, 2012
July 2, 1961 a despondent, scarred and scared Ernest Hemingway committed suicide at age 61.
There have been five suicides in the Hemingway family over four generations — Hemingway’s father, Clarence; siblings Ursula, Leicester and Ernest; granddaughter Margaux.
LIFE’s Alfred Eisensstaedt went to Cuba to photograph Hemingway for the September 1952 issue, he encountered not a gracious (if perhaps prickly) fellow artist and man of letters, but a thoroughly disagreeable, paranoid, gin-sodden lunatic.
Incredibly, one of Hemingway’s most highly regarded novels, the short masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea, was first published, in its entirety, in a single issue of LIFE magazine in September 1952.
See the photos here.
(Source: life)
December 29, 2011
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway
December 22, 2011
July 2, 2011
Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway committed suicide 50 years ago today.
He had found writing increasingly difficult and questioned living if he could not write.
He was also in pain from injuries he’d suffered during a safari in Africa. He had left his home in Cuba in 1960, after Fidel Castro’s regime forced him out, and had settled in Ketchum, Idaho. He was increasingly anxious and depressed.
He shot himself in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun.
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