Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
No Pilar, Agustin said. You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.
If people bring so much courage to the world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them
I wish to marry her . . . But she has one drawback, her attitude is uncooperative.
I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
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...
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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...
The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.
It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it
It is silly not to hope,
I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to...
الانسان لم يُخلق للهزيمة .. قد يُدمر الانسان لكنه لا يُهزم