Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
Ernest HemingwayI decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
Ernest HemingwayNight life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.
Ernest HemingwayI am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
Ernest HemingwayWe in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
Ernest Hemingway