Ernest Hemingway

“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”

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

“When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.”

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

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

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

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“Man is not made for defeat.”

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

“A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.”