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  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #6
    Peter De Vries
    “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

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #8
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never confuse movement with action.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war

  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #14
    Ernest Hemingway
    “You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #15
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #16
    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #18
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

  • #19
    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    Jose Marti

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    George Orwell

  • #22
    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #23
    Aldous Huxley
    “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
    Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

  • #24
    Edmund Burke
    “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #25
    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    Rosa Luxemburg

  • #26
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #28
    Confucius
    “The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
    (Analects 2.11)”
    Confucius

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Thomas Carlyle
    “What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
    Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History



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