The Dangerous Summer Quotes

“Then he raised his hand as he faced the bull and commanded him to go down with the death that he had placed inside him.

Bitter lines around the mouth are the first sign of defeat.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer

“Mary, Juanito Quintana, an old friend from Pamplona who was the model for the hotel keeper Montoya in The Sun Also Rises,”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer

“I had known his father Cayetano years before and had written a portrait of him and an account of his fighting in The Sun Also Rises. Everything that is in the bull ring in that book is as it was and how he fought. All the incidents outside the ring are made up and imagined. He always knew this and never made any protests about the book.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer

“I was in Spain following the bulls shortly after the Life series appeared under the agreed-upon title The Dangerous Summer, so I was in a position to evaluate its acceptance by the international bullfighting public, a suspicious, envious lot. Men and women alike took strong stands, and the consensus seemed to be:It was great that Don Ernesto came back. He reported the temporada enthusiastically. He was too partial to his favorite boy. And he should be stood against the wall and fusilladed for the things he said about Manolete.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer

“When a recent publication asked me for six sharp pages on a pressing topic, I warned them: “In six pages I can’t even say hello. But I’ll invite you to cut.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer

“With great good luck he arrived in Spain just as two wonderfully handsome and charismatic young matadors, brothers-in-law, were about to engage in a protracted mano a mano, hand-to-hand duel, which would carry them and their partisans to most of the famous bull rings in Spain. The matadors were Luis Miguel Dominguín, thirty-three years old and usually the more artistic, and Antonio Ordóñez, twenty-seven, the brilliant son of Cayetano Ordóñez (who fought under the name Niño de la Palma), whom Hemingway had praised in Death in the Afternoon.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer