Ernest Hemingway

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

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

The first draft of anything is shit.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.