"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger in the broken places."Your turn: How are we strengthened by adversity?
Ernest Hemingway
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Research: Three Months in the Mediterranean, 1943 (24)
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
On broken people
The brutal irony of this particular quote has never been lost on me. Hemingway was, and is, a huge influence on my writer's voice. That he led the life he did and ultimately ended it so violently has long made me wonder about the demons that tormented him - and adds a particularly poignant and ironic twist to his words here.
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Sure hope I am, Carmi...
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I am reading the short stories by Hemingway right now. The fragility of the human spirit is a given, yet so is resilience if one digs through the layers of our superficial defensive mechanisms. It depends on from what angle one chooses to look at life and at ourselves.
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