Ernest Hemingway: Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking ove — Ernest Hemingway

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 3.0). Quotations may be subject to their authors' rights and may be shown in translation.

' Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.' — Ernest Hemingway
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has liv — Ernest Hemingway
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time — Ernest Hemingway
Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates — Ernest Hemingway
Solitude, though silent as light, is, like light, the mightiest of agencies; for — Thomas De Quincey
Solitude is the mother of anxieties. — Publilius Syrus
Одиночество в творчестве тяжелая штука. Лучше плохая критика, чем ничего… — Anton Chekhov
For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return. — John Milton
An honest man nearly always thinks justly. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When gloaming treads the heels of day And birds sit cowering on the spray, Along — Robert Tannahill
Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain. — Fernando Pessoa
To ponder interminably over the reason for one’s own existence or the meaning of — Albert Einstein