We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
Ernest HemingwayBecause she had done the best she could for many years back and the way they were together now was no one person's fault.
Ernest HemingwayAlso, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.
Ernest HemingwayI’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.
Ernest HemingwayTags: life books experience beauty stories read bad ugly alive
He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.
Ernest HemingwayNo subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
Ernest HemingwayI am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
Ernest HemingwayI've never loved any one else the way I love you. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.'
'Stop it. Harry, why do you have to turn into a devil now?'
'I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?
Ernest HemingwayHe had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones.
You kept from thinking and it was all marvellous. You were equipped with good insides so that you did not go to pieces that way, the way most of them had, and you made an attitude that you cared nothing for the work you used to do, now that you could no longer do it.
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