I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.


Ernest Cline

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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long adv...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Time is the least thing we have of.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Man is not made for defeat.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the ani...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness excep...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whil...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
We are gods with anuses.
ERNEST BECKER
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
ERNEST RENAN
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN
I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy to...
ERNEST BORGNINE
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
ERNEST GAINES
Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
ERNEST RENAN
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY