Ernest Dubay quote: "I just bent her over and kissed her. She went her way and I went mine. We never said a word to each other. I was so glad the war was over."

It's something I have to finalize and find closure. I just want to prove it's me.
ERNEST DUBAY

The reason I tried to hide it was (because) I was supposed to be home kissing my girlfriend. She sai...
ERNEST DUBAY

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for H...
THOMAS DUBAY

There's no hope that a high income state ever will be able to draw back the same amount of funds the...
CURTIS DUBAY

Every one of the best tax systems raises sufficient revenue without imposing at least one of the thr...
CURTIS DUBAY

What's keeping Arizona firmly in the middle is that they need to do a better job with business taxes...
CURTIS DUBAY

I don't know if Minnesota has anything to lament. It's never bad to have high income. But high incom...
CURTIS DUBAY

Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their r...
THOMAS DUBAY

Just to create awareness would be enough, to at least get a debate started.
MATT DUBAY

What I expect to hear (from the court) is that the way things are is not really fair, but that's the...
MATT DUBAY

The whole issue is, she made the decision based knowing that I wasn't going to be there for the chil...
MATT DUBAY

I was trying to talk reason, to try and have a two-way conversation. She considered an adoption but ...
MATT DUBAY

It's just not fair. She has options in this. As a man, I have no options and am forced to live with ...
MATT DUBAY

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETON

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics thi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt abo...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of oth...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things tha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the pu...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and writ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is usef...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You're beautiful, like a May fly.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At on...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just de...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long adv...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Time is the least thing we have of.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Man is not made for defeat.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the ani...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The shortest answer is doing the thing.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness excep...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whil...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

We are gods with anuses.
ERNEST BECKER

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
ERNEST RENAN

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy to...
ERNEST BORGNINE

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
ERNEST GAINES

Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
ERNEST RENAN

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the lice...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fill...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Don't just count your years, make your years count.
ERNEST MEYERS

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.
ERNEST DIMNET

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter...
ERNEST DIMNET

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by th...
ERNEST DIMNET

Man makes holy what he believes.
ERNEST RENAN

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not ha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it k...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the wri...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are ass...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nad...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creati...
ERNEST BARBARIC

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. Wh...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.
ERNEST DOWSON

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
ERNEST NEWMAN

What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
ERNEST RENAN

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
ERNEST DIMNET

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
ERNEST RENAN

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit...
ERNEST DIMNET

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the...
ERNEST DIMNET

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into n...
ERNEST BECKER

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, workin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. B...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Communism is in conflict with human nature.
ERNEST RENAN

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they...
ERNEST HELLO

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enou...
ERNEST RENAN

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the cl...
ERNEST RENAN

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religi...
ERNEST RENAN

Ideas are the roots of creation.
ERNEST DIMNET

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by p...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass o...
ERNEST RENAN

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
ERNEST RENAN

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
ERNEST DIMNET

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
ERNEST JONES

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplis...
ERNEST RENAN

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
ERNEST BENN

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
ERNEST BRAMAH

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-hab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
ERNEST BEVIN

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

It was a pleasant caf
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watchin...
ERNEST BECKER

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
ERNEST HOLMES

One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which op...
ERNEST RENAN

I just bent her over and kissed her. She went her way and I went mine. We never said a word to each other. I was so glad the war was over.

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I just bent her over and kissed her. She went her way and I went mine. We never said a word to each other. I was so glad the war was over.

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