But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that life becomes simpler when one has little at stake.
Ernest Hemingway's quote reflects on the nature of risk and attachment in life. When you have little to lose, decisions may seem less complicated, and one can approach life with a sense of freedom and fearlessness. This perspective can lead to a more liberated existence, though it may also imply a lack of depth in relationships and commitments.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming fears and embracing change.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter from the government saying, 'Dear Mr. Benn, will you turn up when you're 17 1/2? We'll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.' People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God's name couldn't you have full employment and good schools, good hospitals, good houses?
We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
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