Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings...
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
The two waiters inside the cafe knew that theo ld man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him....
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and econ...
That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?
That was morality ; things that made you disgusted afterwards. No, that must be immorality. That was a large statement. What a lot of bilge I could think up at night. What rot ! I could hear Brett say...
That night at the hotel, in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door, a thick carpet on the floor of the room, outside the windows the rain falling and in the room ligh...
That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.
Tell him I think writing is lousy, Bill said. Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.
So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.
So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from n...
She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would h...
She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly
Once in camp I put a log on a fire and it was full of ants. As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the center where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end....
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.
Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly and we had loved the big studio with the great paintings. It was like one of the be...
Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
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...