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Quotation from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

Ernest Hemingway (spoken by Frederic Henry)

A Farewell to Arms, Book III, Chapter XXVII (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929))

Portrait of Ernest Hemingway

The same reflection continues: only plain names and numbers still mean something to him.

Citation: "Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates." — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Book III, Chapter XXVII (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929)). (id a-farewell-to-arms-q4)

Portrait: ErnestHemingway, Lloyd Arnold, Public domain.

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