Ernest Hemingway ( 10 of 45 )
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or read more
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.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Courage is grace under pressure.
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary read more
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.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write read more
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you read more
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
