The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

Please don’t be put off by the sometimes awkward English of Darzikola. More and more as the whole world comes online, excellent insights expressed in awkward English will be the norm, and there is a profound need for a mechanism in the scientific review process to deal with this. Hemingway put it this way: “English, or what it is we all speak.”

He told me with an ironic grin how he finally could afford to live the way he had lived his entire life.

When I had to write it, then it would be the only thing to do and there would be no choice. Let the pressure build.

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 those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle. This changed him so that he was not so pleasant to have around.

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn’t have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

“He’s written about all the things he knows, and now he’s on all the things he doesn’t know.”

Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public.”

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”