Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

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

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Courage is grace under pressure.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.