A quote

I'm reading a book by A.E. Hotchner, once a writer for Cosmopolitan in the late 1940s, back when the magazine used to commission stories by Hemingway, instead of quizzes with titles like "Do You Let Your Man Walk All Over You?" and articles about G-spots.
Hotchner became one of Hemingway's best friends, and wrote a book about him after "Papa Hemingway," as the memoir is called, shot himself in the head.

"There are some things which cannot
be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have,
mus be paid heavily for their acquiring.
They are the very simplest things,
and because it takes a man's life to know them
and the little new that each man gets from life
is very costly and the only heritage
he has to leave."
Ernest Hemingway