{"id":3587,"date":"2012-10-20T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2012-10-20T11:35:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:35:15","slug":"hemingway-a-farewell-to-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3587","title":{"rendered":"Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Farewell to Arms <\/em>(published 1929) is a book of love and war. It focuses on a romance between an officer and nurse against the backdrop of World War I. The book has been tagged as Hemingway&#8217;s bleakest novel. However, it was Hemingway\u2019s first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as &#8220;the premier American war novel from that debacle [World War I]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This book is a simple story of complex issues, which Hemingway has seemingly made simple. Here is a dozen great thoughts on love and war and man\u2019s ability to survive them both.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All thinking men are atheists.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThere isn\u2019t always an explanation for everything.\u201d \/ \u201cOh, isn\u2019t there? I was brought up to think there was.\u201d \/ \u201cThat\u2019s awfully nice.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>There is nothing as bad as war.<\/li>\n<li>War is not won by victory.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFight or die. That\u2019s what people do. They don\u2019t marry.\u201d \/ They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren\u2019t the same one\u2026. There\u2019s only us two and in the world there\u2019s all the rest of them. If anything comes between us we\u2019re gone and then they have us.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one\u201d&#8230;. The man who first said that was probably a coward&#8230;. \u201cHe knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he&#8217;s intelligent. He simply doesn&#8217;t mention them.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Life isn\u2019t hard to manage when you\u2019ve nothing to lose.<\/li>\n<li>No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u201cNow I am depressed myself,&#8217; I said. &#8216;That&#8217;s why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Wine is a grand thing. It makes you forget all the bad.<\/li>\n<li>I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain\u2026. There were so many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity.<\/li>\n<li>If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>ed. &#8211; This is the third of five Hemingway masterpieces to be featured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2684\" target=\"_blank\">2012 <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2684\" target=\"_blank\">By George Journal<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2684\" target=\"_blank\"> pages<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Farewell to Arms (published 1929) is a book of love and war. It focuses on a romance between an officer and nurse against the backdrop of World War I. The book has been tagged as Hemingway&#8217;s bleakest novel. 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