Quote by Ernest Hemingway
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterflys wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. – Ernest Hemingway

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway

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As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldnt be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country. – Ron Paul

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