All the passengers were crowded over on the landside of the ship, watching through the narrow windows the careened hulk of a freighter, visibly damaged by shellfire, which had driven ashore to beach h...
You see, I am 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...
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many goo...
They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want so...
There is a lot of time between now and the fall term. There is a lot of time between now and the day after tomorrow if you want to put it that way ...
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.
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...
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is v...
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.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
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 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 am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.