Ernest Hemingway

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“Never mistake motion for action.”

“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.”

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

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

“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.”

“You're beautiful, like a May fly.”

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”

“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.”