Jul
16
“It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry — or laugh.
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
The first by Kurt Vonnegut, the second by Ernest Hemingway.
Chase and I were discussing how one is the next generation of the other, that Hemingway showed the sad emptiness of machismo and Vonnegut the same for intellectualisim. Neither does anybody any good.
