It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and can coast down them…. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motorcar only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
Category: Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.
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Never mistake motion for action.
Never mistake motion for action.
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.
Do not start blaming who you love, or apportioning guilt, for it will all be apportioned in good time, and not by you.