Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway!

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

~ The final lines of The Sun Also Rises

"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started."

~ A Farewell to Arms

"If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it."

"Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective."

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

~ Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961