Ernest Hemingway on Power
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Ernest Hemingway, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #14642: "When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #106537: "I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if the…"
3 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway on Power
"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."
"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."
"I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows."