“The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.”
“All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.”
“We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.”
“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”
“You're right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't care.”
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
On taking charge of an attack on a fortress, in Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties : A Book of Inspiration (1896) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 55
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)
Source: Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
Context: An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
