I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]
He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fish feed first and the hooked fish, the female, made a wild, panic-stricken, despairing fight that so...
All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk.All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk.
Don't worry, she says. Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald.
For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.
I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the bea...
I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
I am always in love.
I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.
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