Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
From Ernest Hemingway
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Courage is grace under pressure.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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