Ernest Hemingway

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. ”

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. ”

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. ”

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ”

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. ”

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ”

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. ”

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. ”

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. ”