She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people.
Pain does not matter to a man.
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them...
No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog...all right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought...
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
I’m fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn’t tell you that in New York. It’d mean I was a faggot. That was what the Civil War was about. Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with Genera...
It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy a great success at it for a time.
It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was.
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in...
If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy, he said aloud.
If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the...
I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who wi...
I am always in love.
How little we know of what there is to know.
How did you go bankrupt? Bill asked. Two ways, Mike said. Gradually and then suddenly.
Here's a taxidermist's, Bill said. Want to buy anything? Nice stuffed dog? Come on, I said. You're pie-eyed.Pretty nice stuffed dogs, Bill said. Certainly brighten up your flat.Come on. Just one stuff...