Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929, p. 118.
This was not always so. But even in WWII America and its allies were willing to inflict such terrible damage on teh infrastructure and civillians required if the last vestiges of the military are to be destryoed or rendered incapabley of ressurecting themselves. Since then we have not been willint to pay that price, nor the price of losing lives of our own military. As a result, fanatics who can recruit additional fanatics who are willing to die for a cause con continue the firght almost perpetually.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
