For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

tax rate at over 80 percent, he had to hand over most of what he earned on the royalties of For Whom the Bell Tolls as well as his $100,000 from his contract with Paramount Pictures to make it into a movie.

John Donne, which expressed the interconnectedness of humanity that matched the aspirations of his work.

Spanish word for war, guerre, and means “little war.”

Bruce and Hemingway were with the advance fighting units that headed into the center of the city and together they climbed to the top of the Arc de Triomphe to look across all of Paris.

second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone;

“You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred. Prison is nothing. Prison only makes hatred. That all our enemies should learn.”

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.

“I obscenity in the milk of science,” Pilar raged to the gypsy.

In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers.