Real Life Influences
Hemingway used many of his real life experiences, friends, and relatives, to form his stories and base his characters on.
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Famous quotes containing the words real, life and/or influences:
“The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people’s progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“All life long, the same questions, the same answers.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)