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Ernest Hemingway


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It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

Ernest Hemingway

London Fights the Robots, Collier’s magazine, August 1944.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

Ernest Hemingway

After being in a January 1954 airplane crash in a remote location by the border of the Belgian Congo, Hemingway was believed to have lost his life. When he later returned safely to Nairobi he had the rather odd sensation of reading several reports of his death in the newspapers. He found to his displeasure that, “In all obituaries, or almost all, it was emphasized that I had sought death all my life”. Cited in 1961 book by Carlos Baker, Hemingway and His Critics: An International Anthology.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Falkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something some one else has done though you might have done it if they hadn’t.

Ernest Hemingway

Letter to Harvey Breit, 3 July 1956.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast, 1964. .


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