Ernest Hemingway

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Write drunk, edit sober.

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

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you are a lucky man to remember it.

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

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

I still believe that man's highest purpose is to become a man.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Nobody lives forever, but we can live well enough and long enough to be a damn good example.