"This is a good place," he said."There's a lot of liquor," I agreed."
- Ernest Hemingway
"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
"There isnt always an explanation for everything."
"I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away...."
"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you..."
"Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself."
"You are going to die like a dog for no good reason"