I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Ernest HemingwayNow is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
Ernest HemingwayIf he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
Ernest Hemingway