Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? – Ernest Hemingway
That terrible mood of depression of whether its any good or not is what is known as The Artists Reward. – Ernest Hemingway

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? – Ernest Hemingway
That terrible mood of depression of whether its any good or not is what is known as The Artists Reward. – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. – Ernest Hemingway
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance. – Joseph Mazzini