"I'm not going to get into the..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.”
“I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.”
“Man is not made for defeat.”
More on Humility
“The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.”
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
“It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak, feel their mortality, and think that they have measured the strength of man. They will not boast; they will be frank and humble. Well, let them have the few poor comforts they can keep. Humility is still a very human virtue. They look back on life, and so see not into the future. The prospect of the young is forward and unbounded, mingling the future with the present.”
More on Comparison
“Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.”
“Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?”
“you saw her fair, none else being by,Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'dYour lady's love against some other maidThat I will show you shining at this feast,And she shall scant show well that now seems best.”