Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.
Ernest HemingwayYouโll ache. And youโre going to love it. It will crush you. And youโre still going to love all of it.
Ernest HemingwayI kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
Ernest HemingwayI don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway