Quote by: Ernest Hemingway

I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. If we no longer have religion after the war then I think there must be some form of civic penance organized that all may be cleansed from the killing or else we will never have a true and human basis for living. The killing is necessary, I know, but still the doing of it is very bad for a man and I think that, after all this is over and we have won the war, there must be a penance of some kind for the cleansing of us all.


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  • NameErnest Hemingway
  • DescriptionAmerican author and journalist
  • AliasesHemingway ernest; Hemingway; ErnestHemingway; Ernest Heminway; Ernest Hemmingway; Ernest Miller Hemmingway; E. M. Hemmingway; E. Hemmingway; Earnest Hemmingway; E. Hemingway; Ernest M. Hemingway
  • BornJuly 21, 1899
  • DiedJuly 2, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWar Correspondent; Screenwriter; Writer; Novelist; Journalist; Autobiographer; Playwright
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Bronze Star Medal