Ernest Hemingway

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

“Write drunk, edit sober.”

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

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

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

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

“We are all broken. That's how the light gets in.”

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

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

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

“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.”

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”