“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
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Yes, this is very true, Chel.
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It creates empathy for others.
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Truthful words – concept of genuine person.
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Yes. I love genuine people.
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What a lovely quote. 🙂
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It is!
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Or taken advantage of ☹️
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Also true. 😦
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That’s a good one.
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I’m glad you approve! 🙂
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I entered you poetry thing by the way….it’s the bad poetry right?
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Yes! I’m going from a humorous angle at the moment, mostly because that seems an easier concept for me to explain. 🙂
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😉
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In Hemingway’s case, of course, it manifested itself in self-destruction.
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So thank God I’m such a talentless selfish old bastard
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Not so. Only two of the three, maybe. 😉
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Yeah, true. I’m not that old
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😀
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Well, aren’t you adding a cheery note to his observation. 😀 😀 I suppose that added to his empathy?
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I recall writing a story once for a University assignment which involved and afterlife conversation between the protagonist and Hemingway as they played chess with both advocating the wisdom of blowing their own heads off. That was a fairly cheerful piece too.
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😀 And now I want to read this.
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A story written long ago before computers and hard disks and clouds and whatnot. Written with a typewriter on a piece of paper and now lost forever. I recall only the last few words which were, “your move, Ernest.”
It was, no doubt, not nearly as good as I choose to remember it having been.
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Time for a re-write?
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So many ways of interpreting this quote but I like it 🙂 x
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I hadn’t realized that, but you’re right.
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That’s what makes humans so interesting—we’re complicated.
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True, although he’s taking a bittersweet approach to saying that.
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I wonder was he writing about himself.
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Knowing his perspectives, methinks this was a more positive observation.
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I don’t know much about him, so thanks for that perspective.
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(I don’t, either, but some other commenters are alluding to a less-than-cheery one. )
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That wouldn’t surprise me.
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