Tuesday, December 18, 2012

To Quote Ernest Hemingway


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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Ernest Hemingway

To Quote Ernest Hemingway


“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway
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To Quote Shakespeare



   Such stuff as dreams are made of.
Prospero:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest Act 4, scene 1, 148–158

I wanted to quote this Shakespeare play because he was one of our greatest playwrights and poets. A genius. To understand this quote, you must understand the context of the play.

Humphry Bogart misquoted the saying. It was supposed to be:

"Such stuff as dreams are made on."

Sort of meaning people are what dreams are made of.