Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his...
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOEverything is mucho simpler in a hospital, including jokes
Su decisión habia sido permanecer en aguas profundas y tenebrosas, lejos de todas las trampas y cebos y traiciones. Mi decisión fué ir allá a buscarlo, mas allá de toda gente. Mas allá de toda gente e...
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.
Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring…But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, n...
Isn't it pretty to think so.
I thought you weren't going to ever talk about it.How can I help it?You'll lose it if you talk about it.I just talk around it. You know I feel rather damned good, Jake.You should.You know it makes one...
I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad.
I knelt and started to pray and prayed for everybody I thought of, Brett and Mike and Bill and Robert Cohn and myself, and all the bull-fighters, separately for the ones I liked, and lumping all the r...
I kissed her neck and shoulders. I felt faint with loving her so much.
However you make your living is where your talent lies
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the bea...
For sale: baby shoes, never used.
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the...
During our last year in the mountains new people came deep into our lives and nothing was ever the same again. The winter of the avalanches was like a happy and innocent winter in childhood compared t...
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.