The madness all over Auteur: Ernest Hemingway Copy Quote More from Ernest Hemingway “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since …” “Ambition...the original of vices;Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer …” “No; that doesn't interest me.''That's because you never read a book about it.” “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the sec…”