I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'


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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At on...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just de...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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