Quotes from bookGreen Hills of Africa
Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 work of nonfiction by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Green Hills of Africa is divided into four parts: "Pursuit and Conversation", "Pursuit Remembered", "Pursuit and Failure", and "Pursuit as Happiness", each of which plays a different role in the story.
“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”
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“We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.”
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“[T]he rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.”
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Part III, Ch. 1
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“Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.”
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Part II, Ch. 2
Sentence in bold quoted by Ralph Ellison in the opening paragraph of his autobiographical essay "Hidden Name and Complex Fate" (1964).
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Context: Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
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[…] it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
Part I, Ch. 1
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