All ERNEST HEMINGWAY Quotes about “Age”

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.”
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”
“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.”
“A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.”
“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”
“The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.”
“The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.”
“Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.”

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