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The Sun Also Rises (1926)
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
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Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
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That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.
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You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.
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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
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Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
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You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.
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I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.
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I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...
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A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
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Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
Ernest Hemingway
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Born:
July 21, 1899
Died:
July 2, 1961
(aged 61)
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