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

It wasnt by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. – Ernest Hemingway

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Brevity
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. – Ernest Hemingway

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architecture
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Other Quotes from
Twentieth Century
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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

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

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff… – James Ellroy

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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire. – David Copperfield

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Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Honesty

You dont suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. – Greg LeMond

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Sports

Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. – Martin Luther

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Peace