Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945
It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.
If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But th...
If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it
I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.'It's a bore,' he said out loud.'What is, my dear?''Anything you do too bloody long.
I wish I did not think about it so much, he thought.
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...
I was pretty well through with the subject. At one time or another I had probably considered it from most of its various angles, including the one that certain injuries or imperfections are a subject...
I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?
I told the boy I was a strange old man, he said. Now is when I must prove it. The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.
I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we...
He thought about alone in Constantinople that time, having quarreled in Paris before he had gone out. He had whored the whole time and then, when that was over, and he had failed to kill his lonelines...
He killed more men than the cholera.
He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.