I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Topic

Passage of time Aging Living life to the fullest Wasting time Life

Speaker

Robert Cohn

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Topic
The world Death
Speaker
Robert Jordan

Author

Ernest Hemingway
Source
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Medium
Novel
Genre
War novel
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.

Another quote from the 1920s

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

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Thinking outside the box Thinking big Creativity
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The Serpent

Author

George Bernard Shaw
Source
In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden) Back to Methuselah
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1921 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "In the Beginning: B.C. 4004." Back to Methuselah. Penguin, 1988, pt. 1, act 1. Originally published by Constable/Brentano's, 1921.

Another quote about Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Topic
Nature of life Life
Speaker
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Medium
Speech
Language
English
Time
1911 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Class of '61." Fiftieth Anniversary of Graduation of the Harvard Class of 1861. 28 June 1911, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Class of '61." The Essential Holmes, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.