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I was trained to be a deadly killer. I was probably one of the Marine Corps best killers. But, I decided I'm not a killer. It was a conviction that came from my heart ... maybe between me and God.


Ernest McQueen

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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...
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