They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway
Im not a good father and theyre not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers morality in life and they were not my people any more. – Wilbur Smith