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This reads as a piece of encouragement offered in the face of doubt, with faith standing in for patience and loyalty. The DiMaggio reference adds a concrete image of excellence, so the line can be heard as trust in a team and in what one exceptional player represents. It lands before a game, or during a slump, when hope needs a name and a face.
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About Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His work belongs to the 20th century, and he is widely known for a spare, understated style that shaped later writers. He has 257 quotes on the site. He wrote seven novels, six short-story collections, and two works of nonfiction, several of which became classics of American literature. He was also known for an adventurous public image and a blunt, outspoken manner, and he received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Faith: more sayings
- “There are some people that look at faith as a part of their life, and there are those like me that look at fa…”Roland Martin
- “When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heartAnd your plans are upset and your world falls apart,Rem…”Helen Steiner Rice
- “When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every…”Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Books by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
A short novel, quick to read.