"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
— Ernest Hemingway (via freyjageist)
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
— Ernest Hemingway (via elige)
Midnight in Paris
- Gil: Were you scared?
- Hemingway: Of what?
- Gil: Getting killed?
- Hemingway: You'll never write well if you're afraid of dying. Do you?
- Gil: Yeah, I do. I'd say it's probably maybe my greatest fear, actually.
- Hemingway: Well, that's something all men before you have done. All men will do.
- Gil: I know. I know.
- Hemingway: Have you ever made love to a truly great woman?
- Gil: Actually, my fiancée is pretty sexy.
- Hemingway: And when you make love to her, you feel true, and beautiful passion, and you, for at least that moment, lose your fear of death.
- Gil: No. That doesn't happen.
- Hemingway: I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man who is brave and true looks Death squarely in the face like some rhino-hunters I know, or Belmonte, who's truly brave. It is because they love with sufficient passion, to push death out of their minds.
"No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway, Midnight in Paris
"It was a good book because it was an honest book, and that’s what war does to men. And there’s nothing fine and noble about dying in the mud unless you die gracefully. And then it’s not only noble but brave."
— Ernest Hemingway, Midnight in Paris
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