Ernest Hemingway on War

Ernest Hemingway was a wounded WWI Veteran. War served as the backdrop for many of his literary masterpieces. In a writing debate on hunting in Esquire magazine where he served as a leading colmunist, Hemingway finally left animals to poignantly note the following:

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man. And those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. You will meet them doing various things with resolve, but their interest rarely holds because after the other thing ordinary life is as flat as the taste of wine when the taste buds have been burned off your tongue.”

-- Ernest Hemingway, "On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," Esquire, April 1936.

In Men at War, Hemingway wrote: "When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it." (Source: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/spring/hemingway.html)


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