Courage is grace under pressure. Votes: 20
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. Votes: 9
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. Votes: 8
Man is not made for defeat. Votes: 0
Are you a communist?No I am an anti-fascistFor a long time?Since I have understood fascism. Votes: 0
Never mistake motion for action. Votes: 0
My big fish must be somewhere. Votes: 0
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Votes: 0
Write drunk; edit sober. Votes: 0
Anyone can be a fisherman in May. Votes: 0
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. Votes: 0
A bottle of wine was good company. Votes: 0
Hunger is good discipline. Votes: 0
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra! Votes: 0
A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine. Votes: 0
I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division. Votes: 0
Live it up so you can write it down. Votes: 0
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. Votes: 0
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too? Votes: 0
No one you love is ever truly lost. Votes: 0
Religion is the opium of the poor Votes: 0
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. Votes: 0
Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. Votes: 0
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Votes: 0
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. Votes: 0
I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds. Votes: 0
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is Votes: 0
Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America. Votes: 0
For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. Votes: 0
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. Votes: 0
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try. Votes: 0
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. Votes: 0
A cat has absolute honesty. Votes: 0
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters. Votes: 0
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail. Votes: 0
Fascism is a lie told by bullies. Votes: 0
Look at things Votes: 0
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. Votes: 0
Never confuse movement with action. Votes: 0
The first draft of anything is sh*t. Votes: 0
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. Votes: 0
War is not won by victory. Votes: 0
Most people never listen. Votes: 0
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? Votes: 0
One cat just leads to another. Votes: 0
Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks. Votes: 0
Every day above earth is a good day. Votes: 0
Isn't it pretty to think so. Votes: 0
There is no rule on how to write. Votes: 0
I don't. I don't want anybody else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you. Votes: 0
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. Votes: 0
All thinking men are atheists. Votes: 0
Easy writing makes hard reading. Votes: 0
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. Votes: 0
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won't you? Because we're going to have a strange life. Votes: 0
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world. Votes: 0
Worry destroys the ability to write. Votes: 0
Drinking is a way of ending the day. Votes: 0
I am always in love. Votes: 0
I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks? Votes: 0
Strong in all the Broken Places Votes: 0
Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Votes: 0
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. Votes: 0
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man. Votes: 0
You've such a lovely temperature. Votes: 0
He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement. Votes: 0
I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you. Votes: 0
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. Votes: 0
Time is the least thing we have. Votes: 0
Never confuse motions with action. Votes: 0
Let's not talk about how I am. It's a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore. Votes: 0
You'll lose it, if you talk about it Votes: 0
Oh, darling, I've been so miserable. Votes: 0
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be Votes: 0
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. Votes: 0
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. Votes: 0
You're beautiful, like a May fly. Votes: 0
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. Votes: 0
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers. Votes: 0
But did thee feel the earth move? Votes: 0
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them. Votes: 0
Before you quit, you have to try Votes: 0
Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse. Votes: 0
I am like a blind pig when I work. Votes: 0
Never mistake motive for action. Votes: 0
Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears. Votes: 0
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. Votes: 0
Religion is the opium of the poor. Votes: 0
Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us. Votes: 0
Your blood coagulates beautifully. Votes: 0
They arrested us after breakfast. Votes: 0
Work could cure almost anything Votes: 0
Yes, they have more money. Votes: 0
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it. Votes: 0
Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike. Votes: 0
Never mistake movement for action Votes: 0
We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though. Votes: 0
Not the why but the what. Votes: 0