'I started out very quiet and beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendahl, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in the ring with Mr. Tolsoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.'
Ernest Hemingway
Photograph of Leo Tolstoy by Produkin-Gorsky
