Ernest Hemingway vs. David Cay Johnston
Read 20 entries attributed to Ernest Hemingway alongside 20 attributed to David Cay Johnston. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Ernest Hemingway alongside 20 attributed to David Cay Johnston. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: truth, books, politics, life, time. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #1194: "Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, …"
Attributed to David Cay Johnston, entry #217569: "f Reaganism worked, if Bush's tax cuts worked, America today would be swimming in jobs. That's what we were promised. It would lead to all this investment and all these jobs. Inst…"
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Ernest Hemingway
1899 – 1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The…"
#love"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good,…"
#love"Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love."
#love"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
#love"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
#love"I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is wri…"
#truth"Easy writing makes hard reading."
#books"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. Bu…"
#politics"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
#life"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows, and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, wil…"
#writing"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 t…"
#literature"Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you…"
#work"The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
#time"The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his ro…"
#money"This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought…"
#mind"Hit in the head you will die quickly and cleanly even sweetly and fittingly except for the white blinding flash that never stops, unless perhaps it is only t…"
#life"Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living w…"
#death"Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loan…"
#writing"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soi…"
#humor"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
#writingDavid Cay Johnston
1948
David Cay Boyle Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
"f Reaganism worked, if Bush's tax cuts worked, America today would be swimming in jobs. That's what we were promised. It would lead to all this investment an…"
#time"Mr. Reagan came along and said, "Are you better off? ...Government is the problem," and persuaded people who were faced with problems... We had two oil shock…"
#politics"The fundamental affect that's taking place... is that government has changed from focusing on nurturing and developing a stable middle class, to these other …"
#politics"People don't know... They... are so fascinated by what's going on in the White House, they're not paying attention to what matters. ...he reason I hope every…"
#books"All of the Founders of this country... were well steeped in the history of the ancient world. ...hey were very concerned about the rabble... about people bei…"
#history"he Internal Revenue Service in 2003 released its first public analysis of tax returns filed by the 400 highest income Americans... from 1992 to 2000. ...the …"
#society"That's what I'm worried about... the tyrant next time."
#time"he Trump presidency is unlike anything that came before, a presidency built on open public contempt for Constitutional principles."
#ethics"The hiring of Manafort and others, specifically, a Russian-born real estate mogul with mob ties whose 2015 emails indicate that he hoped to help secure both …"
#life"Our democracy is in very deep trouble. ...Donald Trump is not the disease. He is the symptom."
#politics"Democrats and Republicans alike have turned the tax system into a vehicle not just to finance government but to finance social change. For the last three dec…"
#politics"As taxpayers we gave one of Warren Buffet's companies, in 2006, an interest-free loan of $665 million dollars, and he only has to pay half of it back 28 year…"
#justice"ound bytes of politicians in both parties bear as much connection to the reality of the tax system as my... grandson's belief in Santa."
#truth"Trump started a faux university named for himself that taught nothing of value and collapsed in scandal."
#art"Conservatism... means we take the things that we know work and we keep... and maintain them. ...f you want to try something new... you're careful... you're c…"
#knowledge"This book tells you what has either not been in the news or been in it glancingly, about what they're doing to our government; and that effects your safety, …"
#politics"Journalism never did a great job of covering government, but 40% of journalism jobs in this country have disappeared since 2000. ...s a result of that the ag…"
#books"Congress lets business owners, investors and landlords play by one set of rules, which are filed with opportunities to hide income, fabricate deductions and …"
#politics"Japan has mandatory unions. ...It's in their Constitution, and who wrote their Constitution? ...The staff of... General Douglas MacArthur, because he knew th…"
#art"Where are the ministers? ... ...said ..."Donald denies it." Well, Eliot Spitzer denied it. ...Bill Clinton denied it. ... goes... "Donald is a changed man fr…"
#philosophy