“They sat together at a table that was close against the wall near the door of the café and looked at the terrace where the tables were all empty exce“They sat together at a table that was close against the wall near the door of the café and looked at the terrace where the tables were all empty except where the old man sat in the shadow of the leaves of the tree that moved slightly in the wind.”...more
“A girl came in the café and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted co“A girl came in the café and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. I looked at her and she disturbed me and made me very excited. I wished I could put her in the story, or anywhere, but she had placed herself so she could watch the street and the entry and I knew she was waiting for someone. So I went on writing. The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. I ordered another rum St. James and I watched the girl whenever I looked up, or when I sharpened the pencil with a pencil sharpener with the shavings curling into the saucer under my drink. I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”...more
“Dr. Rome's office at St. Mary's was a small rectangle with one window and as I entered it on time, I was dumfounded to see Ernest there, dressed in s“Dr. Rome's office at St. Mary's was a small rectangle with one window and as I entered it on time, I was dumfounded to see Ernest there, dressed in street clothes, grinning like a Cheshire cat. "Ernest is ready to go home," said Dr. Rome. I knew that Ernest was not cured, that he entertained the same delusions and fears with which he had entered the clinic, and I realized in despair that he had charmed and deceived Dr. Rome to the conclusion that he was sane. With Ernest there in the small office, I could make no protest or rebuttal. There might still be some therapy which could cure my husband. But this was no time or place for such discussion.”...more
“There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow th“There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won't betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.”...more
“On the eastward crossing on the Ile de France Thomas Hudson learned that hell was not necessarily as it was described by Dante or any other of the gre“On the eastward crossing on the Ile de France Thomas Hudson learned that hell was not necessarily as it was described by Dante or any other of the great hell-describers, but could be a comfortable, pleasant, and well-loved ship taking you toward a country that you had always sailed for with anticipation.” ...more
“A bullfighter can never see the work of art that he is making. He has no chance to correct it as a painter or a writer has. He cannot hear it as a mu“A bullfighter can never see the work of art that he is making. He has no chance to correct it as a painter or a writer has. He cannot hear it as a musician can. He can only feel it and hear the crowd's reaction to it. When he feels it and knows that it is great it takes hold of him so that nothing else in the world matters.” ...more
“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved hi“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”...more
“He knew how boring any man's war is to any other man, and he stopped talking about it.”“He knew how boring any man's war is to any other man, and he stopped talking about it.”...more
“Listening to these scholars I couldn't help wondering if they are going to run out of material. For all his events and the different chapters of his “Listening to these scholars I couldn't help wondering if they are going to run out of material. For all his events and the different chapters of his life, the places, the wives, and lovers, it really was a short life. Sixty years is not a lot.” ...more
"And what do you want?" "To write as well as I can and learn as I go along. At the same time I have my life which I enjoy and which is a damned good lif"And what do you want?" "To write as well as I can and learn as I go along. At the same time I have my life which I enjoy and which is a damned good life." ...more
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