fishy

cemented Nobel Prize with this

on history

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

Irish Goodbye

A hasty exit made without saying farewells to anybody.

heightened taste, smell

 Hemingway [1899-1961] preferred to be a foreigner in a foreign land.

loved an audience

"He destroyed himself trying to stay true to the character he invented."

longest lived

During Jimmy Carter's [born 1924] administration, no bullets were fired which is the only time in US history that happened.

life is tedious

Vladimir:

That passed the time.

Estragon:

It would have passed in any case.

Vladimir:

Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett [1906-1989], Waiting for Godot [1953] which is recognized as the most important English language play of the 20th Century.

youngest person to become president of the United States

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

– Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919]

neuroscientist and entrepreneurial artist

 

his most important novel

 

“How did you go bankrupt?"
"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961], The Sun Also Rises.which was published when he was 27.

eugenics

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]

Alabama

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
– Dr Martin Luther King Jr. [1929-1968]

tactic

"The writer's job is to tell the truth," Ernest Hemingway once said. When he was having difficulty writing he reminded himself of this, as he explained in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. "I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say."

- Source here.

on idleness

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Bertrand Russell

can money buy us happiness?

Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 2015, gives his answer here.

on creativity

“The future is uncertain, but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.”
– Ilya Prigogine

epic failure until he wasn't

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

theoretical physics

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein

theoretical physics

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
– Max Planck