# Quote — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

> What a business. You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything. There was never any of what this is. You think that is one thing you will never have. And then, on a lousy show like this, co-ordinating two chicken-crut guerilla bands to help you blow a bridge under impossible conditions, to abort a counter-offensive that will probably already be started, you run into a girl like this Maria.

- Author: [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md)
- Book: [For Whom the Bell Tolls](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls.md)
- Page: 167
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls_(1940)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/what-a-business

## More from this book

> Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.

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> 'But are there not many Fascists in your country?'
>
> 'There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes'.

p. 208 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/but-are-there.md)

> There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

p. 467 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/theres-no-one.md)