If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I … - Ernest Hemingway

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

Ernest Hemingway

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

Crazy, Loud, Talking, Thinking

Same Author Quotes

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

Bottles, Delay, Girl, Kissing, Opening

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Grow, Life, Wisdom, Wise

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Cowardice, Loving, Wells

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

Important, Make, Normal, Reference, Take, Writing

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

Gratitude, Strong, Grateful, Experience, Childish, Mended

Similar Quotes

Cassandra Clare

She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparking pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was uneven too.

Bare, Eye, Hair, Jace, Said, Voice

Seth Rogen

When we grew up in Vancouver our friends were - I don't know if I'd say callous, but we had a very, you know, harsh relationship with one another; we'd constantly make fun of each other.

Fun, Harsh, Know, Make, Say, Vancouver

Katherine Mansfield

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

Longs, Poetry, Read, Reads

Anatoly Karpov

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

Annoyance, Games, Irritation, Moving, Reaction, Right

Blaise Pascal

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Different, Inspirational Life, Inspiring, Love, Quite