Iceberg Theory
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"You could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood."
“Listen, Jake,” he said, “are you really a Catholic?”
“Technically.”
“What does that mean?”
“I don’t know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Technically.”
“What does that mean?”
“I don’t know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
May 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Listen, Jake,” he said, “are you really a Catholic?”
“Technically.”
“What does that mean?”
“I don’t know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Technically.”
“What does that mean?”
“I don’t know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
Reposted by Iceberg Theory
It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a gray overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
April 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a gray overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
“Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?”
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bells Toll
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bells Toll
April 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?”
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bells Toll
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bells Toll
“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
April 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
April 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
“I was a little crazy. But I wasn't crazy in any complicated manner.”
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
March 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“I was a little crazy. But I wasn't crazy in any complicated manner.”
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Stupid people will think it is strange. But we must be proud. I love to be proud."
"So do I," he said. "We'll start being proud now.
- Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"So do I," he said. "We'll start being proud now.
- Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
March 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Stupid people will think it is strange. But we must be proud. I love to be proud."
"So do I," he said. "We'll start being proud now.
- Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"So do I," he said. "We'll start being proud now.
- Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
“We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that controls a country that is stupid and does not realize anything and never can. That is why we have this war.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
March 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that controls a country that is stupid and does not realize anything and never can. That is why we have this war.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
March 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
February 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
“There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.”
- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
February 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.”
- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
February 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
“War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
February 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
Reposted by Iceberg Theory
Goodnight.
“Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
January 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Goodnight.
“Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
January 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
January 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
January 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
“The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
January 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
“We would be together
and have our books and
at night be warm in bed
together with the
windows open and the
stars bright.”
- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
and have our books and
at night be warm in bed
together with the
windows open and the
stars bright.”
- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
January 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“We would be together
and have our books and
at night be warm in bed
together with the
windows open and the
stars bright.”
- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
and have our books and
at night be warm in bed
together with the
windows open and the
stars bright.”
- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Hemingway’s New Year Resolutions:
1. Go fishing more. 2. Go for it. 3. Aim for a work-life balance. 4. Never live anywhere but Paris. 5. Be better about staying in touch. 6. Switch publishers to Scribner's. 7. Keep writing.
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 2 (1923-1925)
1. Go fishing more. 2. Go for it. 3. Aim for a work-life balance. 4. Never live anywhere but Paris. 5. Be better about staying in touch. 6. Switch publishers to Scribner's. 7. Keep writing.
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 2 (1923-1925)
December 31, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Hemingway’s New Year Resolutions:
1. Go fishing more. 2. Go for it. 3. Aim for a work-life balance. 4. Never live anywhere but Paris. 5. Be better about staying in touch. 6. Switch publishers to Scribner's. 7. Keep writing.
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 2 (1923-1925)
1. Go fishing more. 2. Go for it. 3. Aim for a work-life balance. 4. Never live anywhere but Paris. 5. Be better about staying in touch. 6. Switch publishers to Scribner's. 7. Keep writing.
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 2 (1923-1925)
“What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.”
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
December 19, 2024 at 9:54 PM
“What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.”
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
December 10, 2024 at 7:33 PM
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
December 8, 2024 at 9:03 AM
“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
December 3, 2024 at 10:26 PM
War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway