It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest HemingwayA 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.
Ernest HemingwayTags: imagery
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest HemingwayFor him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.
Ernest HemingwayTags: nowhere
Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
Ernest HemingwayTags: carpe-diem for-whom-the-bell-tolls
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.
Tags: bullfighting pedro-romero
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest HemingwayI am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
Ernest HemingwayHe killed more men than the cholera.
Ernest HemingwayProse is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
Ernest HemingwayTags: writing prose minimalism hemingway elaboration
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