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#1

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

tags: sympathy

6315 likes

#2

“If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

tags: humor

660 likes

#3

“I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

tags: changing-others

990 likes

#4

“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

tags: discretion, tact

658 likes

#5

“If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”
― David Sedaris

tags: diaries, journals, justice, privacy

492 likes

#6

“I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.”
― David Sedaris

212 likes

#7

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

tags: humor

1589 likes

#8

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19422 likes

#9

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

15049 likes

#10

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

3217 likes

#11

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers

2753 likes

#12

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

1770 likes

#13

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

tags: courage

2249 likes

#14

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

1597 likes

#15

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: doom, mortality

2270 likes

#16

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

5347 likes

#17

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: death, life

1746 likes

#18

“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: love

875 likes

#19

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

770 likes

#20

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
― Ernest Hemingway

651 likes

#21

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: on-writing

461 likes

#22

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: age, wisdom

898 likes

#23

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: love, self-sacrifice

827 likes

#24

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

tags: love

689 likes

#25

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: bravery, courage, fear

2914 likes

#26

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: freedom, liberty

1180 likes

#27

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: personal-growth, self-discovery

970 likes

#28

“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: leaders

788 likes

#29

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: perseverance

314 likes

#30

“In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ”
― Nelson Mandela

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