“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
Best“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Strength“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
Best“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
Great“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
Men“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”
Time“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
Intelligence“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Life“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Funny“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
Imagination“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”
Good“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Great“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
Men“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”
War“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Strength“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
War“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
Death“Courage is grace under pressure.”
Courage“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
Good“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
Death“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”
Failure“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Happiness