"The fact that I am interrupting serious..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?”
More on Self Deprecation
“I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately.”
“I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.”
“I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.”
More on Work
“Your country requiresheroes; be heroes; yourduty is to go on working,and then everything willfollow of itself.”
“A vocation is the backbone of life.”
“The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.”