▶ The Old Man and the Sea; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Sun Also Rises; Hills Like White Elephants; The Snows of Kilimanjaro; …
▶ "You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."; "Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."; "Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"; "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."; "When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."; …"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."; "When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea."; "What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."; "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."; "Wars are caused by undefended wealth."; "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."; "There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."; "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."; "There is no friend as loyal as a book."; "There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."; "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."; "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."; "The shortest answer is doing the thing."; "The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."; "The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without."; "The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other."; "The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."; "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."; "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."; "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."; "Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."; "Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl."; "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."; "Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him."; "Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."; "No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."; "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."; "Never mistake motion for action."; "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."; "Never confuse movement with action."; "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."; "Man is not made for defeat."; "Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."; "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."; "If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."; "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."; "If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."; "I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me."; "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."; "I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."; "I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."; "I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true."; "Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."; "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."; "For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive."; "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."; "Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."; "Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."; "Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts."; "Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."; "Courage is grace under pressure."; "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."; "As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."; "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."; "All things truly wicked start from innocence."; "All our words from loose using have lost their edge."; "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."; "All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."; "About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."; "A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."; "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
