The Sun Also Rises: The Original 1926 Unabridged And Complete Edition (Ernest Hemingway Classics)

by Ernest Hemingway

I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave up something and got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid some way for everything that was any good.

Equivalent Exchange

Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love.

Funny

“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

Maybe all we have are these fleeting moments between us