Ernest Hemingway

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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

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

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. read more

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.