Ernest Hemingway
(1898—1961)
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For we have thought the longer thoughts,
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils' tunes,
Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.
. . .
Ernest Hemingway
(1898—1961)
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For we have thought the longer thoughts,
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils' tunes,
Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.
. . .
| Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, July 21, 1898, the son of a doctor. His fame rests on his best work, short stories and novels, including In our Time (1923), The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). He was married four times. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. On July 2, 1961, seriously ill, Hemingway shot himself to death. |
