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That's a good one

I like that!

All you have to do is blow your brains out, as Ernest did.

As I understand it at the time of his suicide he had other health issue going on that lead him to take his life. Not what I would have chosen but more of a declining health and nearing end of life decision than a depression issue.

He got all he ever wanted and then some. That what I want on mine, because I have.

State that in your will.

Remember he was a leftist, communist sympathizer to the core. Y'all can fawn over Hemingway and Robert Redford all you want.

Didn’t he catch Moby dick or something?

I want this on my headstone: —

I’d replace cottonwoods with maple trees. None prettier IMHO.

You're a douchebag

Nah. Cat pissed on him, though.

Uncle has one in the shape of the Chevy bow tie, but one of the best I’ve ever seen is at the cemetery in New Braunfels TX next to the library..on the backside it reads”She made the best meatloaf “....

Hemingway wrote that eulogy for Gene Van Guilder in 1939 after Gene was shot in the back paddling a canoe on a duck hunt.

I want something like this

Bullshit

Truth..... he wrote (poorly) in short choppy sentences and was a
drunken narcissistic jerk.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/of-hemingway-castro-and-che/


It is indeed a disturbing article, but the facts therein cited are consistent with what I know to be true. Hemingway enjoyed his Mojitos and Daiquiris while rubbing elbows with revolutionaries in the island paradise that the Cuban Revolution has since turned into a wasteland.

Hemingway loved Fidel Castro as well as all left-wing revolutions, and the places he frequented in Cuba are communist shrines today.

It is a travesty that an intelligent man and great author such as Hemingway had such an affinity for tyrants like the Castro brothers and their sidekick Guevara, but unfortunately, it’s true. Hemingway fell for Fidel, hook, line, and sinker just like the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez did over the years.

Hemingway favored the communist side in the Spanish Civil War where 500,000 people perished. He went out of his way to misreport the war and advised John Dos Passos to do the same. Hemingway advised his fellow correspondent that if Dos Passos wanted his journalistic and novelistic work promoted by the print media and the publishing establishment he had better toe the communist line! Dos Passos refused.

So while both of them were initially men of the left, Hemingway prospered, while Dos Passos stalled. Some of the other tidbits come from Hemingway’s own mouth, or rather his pen. In his book, The Fifth Column: And Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway even confesses to crimes, such as turning former friends over to the Republican (communist) secret police. In fact, it was the reality of the civil war in Spain and communist treachery that turned Dos Passos — and many others, such as George Orwell — away from socialism and communism.

During the Spanish Civil War, there was systematic assassination of fellow Republicans, men of the left, such as Dos Passos’ friend, José Robles, and numerous others, including Andres Nin, who were accused of being Trotskyites by Stalin’s NKVD goon squad.

Robles’ execution, probably ordered by Stalin’s NKVD General, Alexander Orlov, caused a the rift between Hemingway and Dos Passos, who had been longtime friends and fellow travelers. Hemingway condoned the assassination, as “necessary in time of war.” Dos Passos, embittered by the death of his friend, broke away from communism and began his remarkable odyssey to the political right. Dos Passos moved to the American Republican party and supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 U.S. presidential election.

I have touched upon the theme of betrayal and assassination of “ideological deviationists” by communists during civil wars and revolutions in previous articles and comments. Communists use assassination and purges of fellow revolutionaries in their quest for ideological purity, following the line Vladimir I. Lenin delineated as far back as 1917.

Returning to The Daily Caller article, an astute commenter who was not at all happy with Hemingway sipping Daiquiris and being entertained by Che while watching the Cuban firing squads, wrote sardonically but with clarity:

“Hemingway like all Leftists was an endlessly self-promoting cowardly narcissistic braggart of modest talent who bullied everyone around him. It is little wonder that when his time of terminal decline was upon him he used a shotgun to avoid the pain and indignity of death. Such a person would have no interest in the suffering of others because being near the power of life and death, and not be threatened by it because of your international status, is the ultimate Leftist aphrodisiac that made him appear to be actually alive.”

and don't forget, Robert Ruark wanted nothing more than to be just like him when he grew up.

I don't think Ruark was a Communist.... he drank himself to death but lots of artists do that.


QUOTES AUTHORS ROBERT RUARK
Robert Ruark Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'”
-- Robert Ruark

#Fun #Night #Men

“Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.”
-- Robert Ruark

#Boys #One Day #Wake Up

“If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.”
-- Robert Ruark

#Writing #Men #Rocks

“You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.”
-- Robert Ruark

#Sleep #Men #Games

“Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.”
-- Robert Ruark

#Gun #Men #Hunting

“A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite”
-- Robert Ruark

#Fashion #Men #Thinking

“Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the cave men lived are full of carvings of assorted game the head of the house drug home. If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too.”
-- Robert Ruark

#Sports #Home #Men

“Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.”
-- Robert Ruark

#Dog #Men

“If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.”
-- Robert Ruark

#Men #Firsts #Doe

“When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be dear, sex or fishing?' And she says, “Don't forget your waders.'”
-- Robert Ruark

#Morning #Sex #Fishing

“A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.”
-- Robert Ruark

#Honesty #Men #Errors

“Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start too young to learn how to be careful.”
-- Robert Ruark

#Boys #Gun #Matter

“But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to life. He shot lions and leopards because he bloody well liked to hunt and shoot, and killing was the best punctuation mark at the end of the intricate and fascinating process of hunting.”
-- Robert Ruark