#ernest

Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#death #divine-design #ernest-holmes #grace #happiness

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#f-scott-fitzgerald #letter #on-writing #storytelling #storytelling

What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow? ↗

— Ernest Renan

#life

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar. ↗

— Jack Paar

#ernest hemingway #gets #gone #had #hemingway