Isn't it pretty to think so?

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Topic

Wishful thinking

Speaker

Jake Barnes

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 3, ch. 19.

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

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The world Death
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
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Citation

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

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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

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Abuses of religion

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Suzanne LaFollette
Source
The Beginnings of Emancipation Concerning Women
Language
English
Time
1926 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Bob Dylan

Like a Rolling Stone

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Alienation Lack of direction
Speaker
Bob Dylan
Source
Like a Rolling Stone Highway 61 Revisited
Medium
Song
Genre
Folk music Folk rock
Statement Type
Question
Language
English
Time
1965 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Dylan, Bob. "Like a Rolling Stone." Highway 61 Revisited. Columbia Records, 1965.