Ernest Hemingway

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#going #i #into #ring #tolstoy

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#thing #true

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#allowed #cues #deal #game #golf

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#brown #built #clock #country #cuckoo

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#been #columnists #grass #had #him

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#chose #had #i #me #never

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#cause #conditions #just #motive #necessary

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#failure #interested #man #old #old man

They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him. “Ay,” the old man said. “Galanos. Come on galanos. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#inspirational

Wars are caused by undefended wealth. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#wars #wealth