Quote by Ernest Hemingway
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. – Ernest Hemingway

Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. – Ernest Hemingway

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Men
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. – Ernest Hemingway

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good
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Twentieth Century
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All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time. – David Bailey

The fifties — they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. – Elizabeth Hardwick

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists. – Barbara Ehrenreich

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasnt the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. – John Lennon

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I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Comte de Mirabeau

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I could never take the idea of religion very seriously. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook its completely clean and organized and it doesnt look like anyone has been cooking in there. – Tom Colicchio

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I didnt have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship. – Ellen Pompeo

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relationship