Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"The shortest answer is doing the thing."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."

"Brave men have fought here, now cripples and the crazy pray here."

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened."

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is an affront."

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

"Patience and discipline will make you successful."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

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

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"The cat has absolute emotional honesty."

"Writing is architecture, not interior decoration."

"You either make money or you don't. It's that simple."

"The first draft of anything is garbage."

"Extraordinary affliction teaches incredible strength."

"Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is good."

"Discipline is what you do even when you don't want to do it."

"The man's today is God's tomorrow."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"Once writing has become your major vice and consuming obsession, you have lost the right to lead a normal life."

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake."