"There is a mystery in all great..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”

“The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.”

“I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.”

“You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.”

“What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.”

“It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.”

“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.”

“Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?”