"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough,..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?”

“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”

“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

“Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.”

“We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.”

“How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.”

“If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.”

“The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.”

“The story you envision as you start out is always a great story; when the facts turn out to be different from, or more complex than, what you expected, your first reaction is always disappointment. That's when you must fight the urge to bend the story to your preconceived notions. First, it's dishonest. And second, in the end, the truth is always the best story.”