Ernest Hemingway Quotes There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway/Quotes 

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. 
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. “Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”…

“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. 
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Courage is grace under pressure. There is no friend as loyal as a book.

• All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. • All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. • All our words from loose using have lost their edge. • All things truly wicked start from innocence. • All thinking men are atheists.