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By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades QUOTES

By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades QUOTES

1 " It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. "

― Ernest Hemingway , By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

2 " All the passengers were crowded over on the landside of the ship, watching through the narrow windows the careened hulk of a freighter, visibly damaged by shellfire, which had driven ashore to beach her cargo. She lay aground, looking against the sand in that clear water like a whale with smokestacks that had come to the beach to die. "

― Ernest Hemingway , By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

3 " You can bet on Franco, or Mussolini, or Hitler, if you want. But my money goes on Hipolito. "

― Ernest Hemingway , By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

4 " The spectacle of its governing is at present more comic than tragic; but the tragedy is very close. "

― Ernest Hemingway , By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

5 " it is much easier to be the opposition to a government than to run the government yourself. "

― Ernest Hemingway , By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades