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

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive. – Ernest Hemingway

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War
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To be a successful father… theres one absolute rule: when you have a kid, dont look at it for the first two years. – Ernest Hemingway

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Father
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All my life Ive looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

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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 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

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion

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But most good movies have a gun in them. – David Sedaris

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The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride. – Proverb

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Smoking helps you lose weight — one lung at a time! – “Alfred E. Neuman” (Mad Magazine)

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud, 1933

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