Ernest Miller Hemmingway

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

• All thinking men are atheists
• About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
• All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
• As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
• 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.
• Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
• In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
• That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
• 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.
• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
• Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The Importance of Ernest Hemingway