To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 07:04:23 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: quotations down through the ages
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 19:46:24 -0400 "Michael Walsh"
<MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> writes:
> > ronkean at juno.com 06/15/02 01:37AM
> >
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Wise men talk because they have something to say;
> >fools, because they have to say something
> >                         --Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
> >
> >"Plato was a bore."
> >                 - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
> >
> >"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
> >                         - Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910)
> >
> >"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoi"
> >                   - Ernest Hemmingway (1889-1961)
> >
> >"Hemmingway was a jerk."
> >                                 - Harold Robbins
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> So who's this Hemmingway?
>
> mjw

I'm surprised you have never heard of Ernest Hemmingway, who is one of
the most famous American writers of the 20th century, probably more so
than Harold Robbins.  Hemmingway lived in Cuba in his last years, and I
think the Cubans have turned the house where he lived into a sort of
shrine.

Ron Kean

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