Ernest Hemingway

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ”

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ”

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. ”

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. ”

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. ”

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ”

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ”

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ”

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ”

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write. ”