Ernest Hemingway on Religion
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Ernest Hemingway, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #111833: "I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #91952: "I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that o…"
2 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway on Religion
"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."
"I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."